Poetry and contemporary culture
Subtitle: the question of value
By: edited by Andrew Michael Roberts and Jonathan Allison.
Contributors: Roberts, Andrew Michael.; Allison, Jonathan, 1958-
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: -- I.; title: Contemporary poetry and the question of value -- Andrew Michael Roberts -- II.; title: Media, poets and politics -- Jonathan Allison; title: 'Vocable scriptsigns': differential poetics in Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget and John Kinsella's Kangaroo virus -- Marjorie Perloff; title: Words on film: collaborative work between poets and film-makers -- Vicki Bertram; title: 'Appreciation of real worth': poetry, radio and the valued reader -- Lilias Fraser; title: Contemporary poetry and academia: the instance of informationism -- Robert Crawford; title: Rhetoric of value in recent British poetry anthologies -- Andrew Michael Roberts; title: Recent American poetry anthologies and the idea of the 'mainstream' -- Alan Golding; title: Progress of the avant-garde: reading/writing race and culture according to universal systems of value -- Romana Huk; title: Sign of democracy and the terms of poetry -- Paul Breslin; title: 'Where is the nation you promised?': American voice in modern Scottish and Irish poetry -- Cairns Craig; title: Contemporary poetry and the Great War -- Jonathan Allison.