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

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 After...

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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
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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.