num_pages: 185
description: Alan Shapiro is not only a much-lauded poet but also one of America's most intelligent and clearheaded thinkers about poetry. In Praise of the Impure collects his passionate, rigorously argued essays on the situation of poetry in American culture today.
language: English
title: In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essays, 1980-1991
titlecomplete: In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essays, 1980-1991
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Northwestern University Press