What Is A Poet?
1st Edition
Published on 16. March 2010
297 pages
978-0-8173-8335-0 (ISBN)
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This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.
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Hank Lazer
What is a Poet?
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11/1987
The University of Alabama Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- THE SYMPOSIUM
- The Character of the Poet
- What Modernism Offers the Contemporary Poet
- Keats and the Use of Poetry
- Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical "Choice" and Historical Formation
- In Search of an Absolute
- Horses with Wings
- Blood on the Cutting Room Floor
- What is This Poet?
- Poetry as Symbolic Action
- PANEL DISCUSSION
- All nine participants, plus comoderators Hank Lazer and Gregory Jay
- ADDITIONAL ESSAYS
- Poetry and Ambition
- Critical Theory and Contemporary American Poetry
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Index
