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Learning the lessons of early modernism
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21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics. By Marjorie Perloff. Blackwell Polishers. $54.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
Marjorie Perloff's 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics is the fourth book in the new Blackwell Manifestos series, a series which includes Terry Eagleton's The Idea of Culture and Alistair E. McGrath's The Future of Christianity. Perloff s book, thoroughly researched and written in a remarkably readable style, offers provocative new assessments of modernism (what i...
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Chapter One from "The Resistances," 'The Life of Poetry.'
The American Poetry Review
; The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves. If there is a feeling that something has been
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Poetry _ and its power _enjoys a new popularity.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... underground. Now the coffeeshop has come back, and poetry has come back with it.'' In New York, poet//activist Bob Holman spreads the news that poetry matters. Last April he drew 10,000 people to the People's Poetry Gathering, which featured writers ranging from rocker ...
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THE SOUNDS OF POETRY: A BRIEF GUIDE.(Review)
American Scholar
; THE SOUNDS OF POETRY: A BRIEF GUIDE By Robert Pinsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $16. Do too few people read poetry? Judging by the mood in the small world of American poetry today, it appears that the answer is yes: maybe never before has the art seemed as marginalized, as irrelevant, as it does
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American Poetry in the New Century
Poetry
; ... of writing, more aware of the nimbus of critical commentary which surrounds and to some extent drives the art. That's the good news: you graduate with a better understanding of the sophistication of your audience and of other writers. At the same time, these ...
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Passages from 'What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics.'
The American Poetry Review
; ... struggle of poetry, the struggle for poetry, as it connects with what William Carlos Williams called the news : It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack of what is found there. It is not primarily a poetic ...
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Poetry Love Potions
Parnassus : Poetry in Review
; Poetry Love Potions James Fenton. An Introduction to English Poetry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2002. 137 pp. $18.00 Robert Pinsky. The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998. 129pp. $16.00 Edward Hirsch. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. Harcourt, Inc. 1999. 356 pp.
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Poetry's 'formative power': teaching poetry in Tasmania 1900-1950.
Australian Literary Studies
; ... Prof. McAuley.' University of Tasmania News 11 (1975): 2-3. [McAuley, James.] 'Academics ... New Awards List.' University of Tasmania News 10 (1975): 1-2. McAuley, James. 'Further ... Professor McAuley.' University, of Tasmania News 12 (1975): 2. Michael, Ian. The Teaching ...
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Bring back the poetry.
Teacher Librarian
; EDUCATORS AGREE THAT THE BEST WAY TO INSTILL POETRY APPRECIATION IN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IS TO USE POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM EVERY DAY, WHILE SOME TEACHERS CHEERFULLY USE POETRY DAILY, OTHERS IGNORE IT BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD POETRY OR BECAUSE OF A LACK OF TIME DUE TO PRESSURES
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Romantic poetry: the possibilities for improvisation.
Wordsworth Circle
; In Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries, a popular performer of poetry called the improvvisatore and improvvisatrice could, as prompted, deliver extempore breath-taking sustained ottava rima poems on topics ranging from the glories of Italy to the tragic death of Hector. Byron and the Shelleys
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Poetry is the new rock'n'roll: there's a record to prove it
The Independent - London
; ... release of the Yeats album it seems that music, one of the most fashion-influenced sectors, has taken poetry to its heart. The news does not surprise Peter Forbes, editor of Poetry Review magazine, who believes poetry and pop music are coming closer together ...
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