Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History In Contemporary American Poetry - Hardcover

Stein, Kevin

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9780821411636: Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History In Contemporary American Poetry

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ISBN 10: 0821411632 ISBN 13: 9780821411636

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1996

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At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets have manifested their communal concerns. As Choice wrote, \u201cStein's graceful text is a primer on the relationship of the (American) poetic to the political.\u201d Looking through the lens of the careers of Robert Lowell, James Wright, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, David Wojahn, and Carolyn Forch\u00e9, Stein illuminates the various ways contemporary poets redeem a vision of personal, aesthetic, and social relevancy from the shadow of traditionally narrated history. Available now in an affordable paperback format, Private Poets, Worldly Acts is a thoughtful and compelling look into American poetry's redemptive venture into the public arena. What results is a renewed appreciation of contemporary poets' personal conversation with the culture to which they belong.

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"Stein's analysis of an important shift in contemporary American poetry should interest any serious student of the genre." -- North Dakota Quarterly "No doubt because Stein is both poet and critic, his study is readable, vivid, unclotted, and written with flair and fluidity." -- American Literature

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An outstanding addition to poetry studies portraying the work of nine contemporary poets who have managed to make their personal voices resonate with larger historical forces. Stein (English, Bradley U.) takes on the divisions of history and literature by insisting that both are made and interpreted the essence of storytelling. He illustrates his i

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