Poetry & pedagogy
Subtitle: the challenge of the contemporary
By: edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr.
Contributors: Retallack, Joan.; Spahr, Juliana.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Study and teaching.; Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Poetry and pedagogy
Description: "The essays collected here suggestively address the possibilities, pleasures, and risks of teaching from the multiplicity of poetries that have proliferated since the sixties. They discuss how to create a lively, investigative poetry classroom and suggest ways to work with cultural implications of poetry in society. The aim is to invite students to experience and make meaning of the poetics of our contemporary world, one that is blatantly "multi"--Multi-cultural, lingual, racial, and ethnic."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.