Twenty poems that could save America and other essays
By: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781555976941
Subjects: Poetics; Essays; History and criticism; Poetry
Other titles: 20 poems that could save America and other essays
Description: A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me. Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the "vertigo" effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, and Dean Young. At the heart of this book is an honesty and curiosity about the ways poetry can influence America at both the private and public levels.
Table of contents: title: Je suis ein Americano : the genius of American diction; title: Idiom, our funny valentine; title: Litany, game, and representation : charting the course from the old to the new poetry; title: Poetic housing : shifting parts and changing wholes; title: Facts and feelings : information, layering, and the composite poem; title: Vertigo, recognition, and passionate worldliness; title: "Regard the twists of the bugle/that yield one clear clarion" : the Dean Young effect; title: "I do this, I do that" : the strange legacy of New York school poetics; title: Unarrestable : the poetic development of Sharon Olds; title: Soul radio : Maria Howe, Jane Hirshfield, and Linda Gregg; title: The village troublemaker : Robert Bly and American poetry; title: Twenty poems that could save America.