{"product_id":"after-the-death-of-poetry-poet-and-audience-in-contemporary-america-hardcover","title":"After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVernon Shetley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic enterprise on the distant margins of contemporary culture. Along with a clear understanding of where American poetry stands and how it got there, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Death of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling set of prescriptions for its future, prescriptions that might enable the art to regain its lost stature in our intellectual life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In exemplary case studies, Shetley identifies the very different ways in which three postwar poets--Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and John Ashbery--try to restore some of the challenge and risk that characterized modernist poetry's relation to its first readers. Sure to be controversial, this cogent analysis offers poets and readers a clear sense of direction and purpose, and so, the hope of reaching each other again.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShetley reveals himself as the most powerful new voice in the criticism of poetry. He writes with enormous confidence, skill, and nuance. The audience for this work will be those who ponder the question of poetry's place in America's culture, those interested in the three poets studied here, as well as those concerned with current cultural debate.--Helen Vendler, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.4 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48753899929849,"sku":"9780822313250","price":182.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ofaEEIVULW9780822313250.webp?v=1785850043","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/after-the-death-of-poetry-poet-and-audience-in-contemporary-america-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}