Poetry & commitment
Subtitle: an essay
By: Adrienne Rich ; with an afterword by Mark Doty
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
ISBN-13: 9780393331035
Subjects: Poetics; Poetry -- Authorship
Other titles: Poetry and commitment
Description: "Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49)