Poetry's afterlife : : verse in the digital age / / Kevin Stein.

• VerfasserIn: Stein, Kevin
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, MI, USA : : University of Michigan Press,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Poetry lives on in the digital age. At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed 'death', Kevin Stein's ""Poetry's Afterlife"" instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of ""Poetry's Afterlife"" blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It's this second life, or better, ""Poetry's Afterlife"", that his book examines and celebrates.

Table of Contents

On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? -- "The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry -- Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish -- "When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline -- Aesthetic dodo -- On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction -- A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries -- These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts -- Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers" -- On teaching & the writer's workshop. The hammer -- Voice: what you say and how readers hear it -- Why kids hate poetry -- Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems -- After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.