History Matters
Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2009
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-1-58729-797-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this capacious and energetic volume, Ira Sadoff argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large. "History Matters" does not return to the culture war that reduced complex arguments about human nature, creativity, identity, and interplay between individual and collective identity to slogans. Rather, Sadoff peels back layers of clutter to reveal the important questions at the heart of any complex and fruitful discussion about the connections between culture and literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-797-7 (9781587297977)
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Person
Ira Sadoff is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English at Colby College. A distinguished, award-winning poet and critic, he is the author of numerous books of poetry, criticism, and essays, including Barter, Grazing, An Ira Sadoff Reader, Emotional Traffic, and Uncoupling, a novel. His poetry has been widely anthologized, most recently in Best Poems of 2008.