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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry

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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as it is familiar. Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemies is to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound significance at the very heart of democratic culture.

Author Biography:

Robert Pinsky, who served as Poet Laureate of the United States, 1997-2000, is the author of many books, including: "Jersey Rain", "Americans' Favorite Poems", "Poems to Read", "The Sounds of Poetry", "The Handbook of Heartbreak", "The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation", among others, and three works published by Princeton: "An Explanation of America"; "The Situation of Poetry"; and "Sadness and Happiness". He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University. This book emerged from the Tanner Lectures that he delivered at Princeton's University Center for Human Values in 2001.
Release date Australia
March 6th, 2005
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Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
112
Dimensions
101x178x9
ISBN-13
9780691122632
Product ID
2406449

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