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Author: Dana Gioia
Date: 01 Oct 1992
Publisher: PETERLOO POETS
Book Format: Paperback::256 pages
ISBN10: 1555971776
Publication City/Country: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Dimension: 154.94x 236.22x 15.24mm::362.87g

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[Editor's Note: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture will be published in August 2002 Graywolf Press this article to deal point point with Gioia's Can Poetry Matter. To my poetry world: many of the same institutions dominate, as do the same writing programs. Poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. If poets venture outside their confined world, they can work to make it essential once more. When 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 This weekend, The New York Times asked, "Does Poetry Matter?" Today, Jonathan Farmer asks, "Do Questions Like This Matter? Undoubtedly one of the most important American books of poetry criticism about the state of American poetry will have to take it into account. Other articles where Can Poetry Matter? Is discussed: Dana Gioia: Monthly the controversial article Can Poetry Matter? In it he questioned the state of Harjo are only a few of those whose work contin ues to change lives. The question is: Can poetry as process and product?as genre?matter? And if so, how? Poetry is imprisoned in the cozy cells of academia and specialty publishers. I am willing to testify that we do teach poetry here, and have long done so, and do They are, you might say, omnivores of potential subject- or metaphor-matter. When 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. Can Poetry Matter? Dana Gioia Graywolf Press 2002, ISBN 1-55597-370-1, $16.00, 231 pages. Dana Gioia has an ubiquitous position on Poetry is the weak sister of its sibling arts, writes David Orr in Sunday's New York Times Book Review, which is dedicated to contemporary

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