Can Poetry Matter?

Can Poetry Matter?
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

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Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into account. --World Literature Today.

Can Poetry Matter?

Can Poetry Matter?
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1992
Genre: Criticism
ISBN:

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"When Dana Gioia's essay "Can Poetry Matter?" appeared in the Atlantic in 1991, it sparked a firestorm of debate and discussion over the role of the poet in today's world - a dialogue in which Gioia participated on radio, television, and in print. One of the more stimulating and provocative figures on our literary horizon, and the author of two widely praised books of poems, Gioia is also an essayist of wide renown." "This collection of essays demonstrates that Gioia's talents do not lie in the area of controversy alone. Can Poetry Matter? is an old-fashioned sort of literary book, part literary criticism, part social commentary, and part plain good reading. Addressing such subjects as the poet as businessman and New Formalism as the real avant-garde, it also includes pieces on the life and work of such diverse figures as Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Robert Bly, and Wallace Stevens." "In an age when literary discourse often seems either bleached of any real content or academic to the point of inaccessibility, the essays in Can Poetry Matter? are certain to educate, provoke, and, perhaps most of all, delight readers. They also establish Dana Gioia as one of the foremost cultural observers of his generation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Can Poetry Matter?

Can Poetry Matter?
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781555971779

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When Dana Gioia's essay "Can Poetry Matter?" appeared in the Atlantic in 1991, it sparked a firestorm of debate and discussion over the role of the poet in today's world - a dialogue in which Gioia participated on radio, television, and in print. One of the more stimulating and provocative figures on our literary horizon, and the author of two widely praised books of poems, Gioia is also an essayist of wide renown. This collection of essays demonstrates that Gioia's talents do not lie in the area of controversy alone. Can Poetry Matter? is an old-fashioned sort of literary book, part literary criticism, part social commentary, and part plain good reading. Addressing such subjects as the poet as businessman and New Formalism as the real avant-garde, it also includes pieces on the life and work of such diverse figures as Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Robert Bly, and Wallace Stevens. In an age when literary discourse often seems either bleached of any real content or academic to the point of inaccessibility, the essays in Can Poetry Matter? are certain to educate, provoke, and, perhaps most of all, delight readers. They also establish Dana Gioia as one of the foremost cultural observers of his generation.

Why Poetry Matters

Why Poetry Matters
Author: Axinn Professor of English Jay Parini
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300124236

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This deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives examines the importance of poetry and its diverse applications in the world.

Making Poetry Matter

Making Poetry Matter
Author: Sue Dymoke
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-06-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441163530

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Making Poetry Matter draws together contributions from leading scholars in the field to offer a variety of perspectives on poetry pedagogy. A wide range of topics are covered including: - Teacher attitudes to teaching poetry in the urban primary classroom - Digital poetry and multimodality - Resistance to poetry in Post-16 English Throughout, the internationally recognised contributors draw on case studies to ensure that the theory is clearly linked to classroom practice. They consider the teaching and learning challenges that poetry presents for those working with learners aged between 5 and 19 and explore these challenges with reference to reading; writing; speaking and listening and the transformative nature of poetry in different contexts.

The Value of Poetry

The Value of Poetry
Author: Eric Falci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108429556

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The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world twenty-first century readers.

Disappearing Ink

Disappearing Ink
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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In a brilliant array of essays that tests the pulse of traditional and contemporary poetry, Gioia ("Can Poetry Matter?") ponders the future of the written word and how it might find its most relevant incarnation.

Cowboy Poetry Matters

Cowboy Poetry Matters
Author: Robert McDowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

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In his groundbreaking essay "Can Poetry Matter?" (reprinted here), Dana Gioia suggested that many types of poetry, assumed by some readers to be marginal art, should not so easily be deleted from mainstream American literature. Throughout the twentieth century, perhaps no important writing has been as seriously -- and mistakenly -- overlooked by the literati as Cowboy poetry. Essentially connected to the folk tale, to legend, myth, the ballad, and song, and vitally enhanced by the contemporary voices of independent ranch women, Cowboy poetry vividly connects us to our past and our fragile, threatened natural environment. The writers included here, both working horse-and-cattle people and mainstream authors, share the brand of bold expression and independent thought found only among the best literary artists. Here is not literary theory. Here is literary life. An anthology as diverse as America herself!

The Music of Time

The Music of Time
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691218862

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"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Don't Read Poetry

Don't Read Poetry
Author: Stephanie Burt
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0465094511

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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.