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050			_aPN 1031 _b.G436 1992
100			_aGioia, Dana. _980630
245		0	_aCan poetry matter? : _bessays on poetry and American culture / _cby Dana Gioia.
260			_aSt. Paul, Minn. : _bGraywolf Press, _cc1992.
300			_axiii, 257 p. _c23 cm.
520			_aWhen Dana Gioia's essay "Can Poetry Matter?" appeared in the Atlantic in 1991, it sparked a firestorm of debate and discussion over the role of the poet in today's world - a dialogue in which Gioia participated on radio, television, and in print. One of the more stimulating and provocative figures on our literary horizon, and the author of two widely praised books of poems, Gioia is also an essayist of wide renown. This collection of essays demonstrates that Gioia's talents do not lie in the area of controversy alone. Can Poetry Matter? is an old-fashioned sort of literary book, part literary criticism, part social commentary, and part plain good reading. Addressing such subjects as the poet as businessman and New Formalism as the real avant-garde, it also includes pieces on the life and work of such diverse figures as Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Robert Bly, and Wallace Stevens. In an age when literary discourse often seems either bleached of any real content or academic to the point of inaccessibility, the essays in Can Poetry Matter? are certain to educate, provoke, and, perhaps most of all, delight readers. They also establish Dana Gioia as one of the foremost cultural observers of his generation."www.alibris.com".
650			_aCriticism. _922428
650			_aLiterature and society. _95333
650			_aPoetry
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