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" Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry / "
Robert Pinsky.
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1039042
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b793412
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Pinsky, Robert.
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Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry /\ Robert Pinsky.
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©2002.
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University Center for Human Values series
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1 online resource (x, 96 pages)
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0691096171
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: 1400825156
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0691096171
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0691122636
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9780691122632
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; I: Culture; II: Vocality; III: Self-Consciousness; IV: Performance; V: Social Presence; VI: Readers; VII: The Narcissistic and the Personal; VIII: Models of Culture; IX: Conclusion; Index of Names.
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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky argues that this gloomy diagnosis is wrongheaded and writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemies is to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound themes at the very heart of democratic culture. One of the country's most accomplished poets, Robert Pinsky served two terms as America's Poet Laureate (1997-2000) and led the immensely popular multimedia Favorite Poem Project, which invited Americans to submit and read aloud their favorite poems. Pinsky draws on his experiences and on characteristically sharp and elegant observations of individual poems to argue that expecting poetry to compete with show business is to mistake its greatest democratic strength--its intimate, human scale--as a weakness. He states that as part of the entertainment industry poetry will always be small and overlooked. As an art--and one that is inescapably democratic--it is massive and fundamental.
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American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Culture in literature.
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Democracy in literature.
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Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Culture in literature.
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Democracy in literature.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Democratie.
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Gedichten.
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United States, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.509358
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PS323.5.P57 2002eb
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