Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age / Kevin Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Poetry--Appreciation--United States--History--20th century.

Poetry.

Poetry--Appreciation--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Poetry lives on in the digital age. At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed 'death', Kevin Stein's ""Poetry's Afterlife"" instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of ""Poetry's Afterlife"" blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It's this second life, or better, ""Poetry's Afterlife"", that his book examines and celebrates.

Contents:

On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity?

"The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry

Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish

"When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline

Aesthetic dodo

On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction

A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries

These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts

Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers"

On teaching & the writer's workshop. The hammer

Voice: what you say and how readers hear it

Why kids hate poetry

Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems

After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786613011626

9781283011624

128301162X

9780472026708

0472026704

OCLC:

666936615