Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry Between Community and Institution

by Christopher Beach

In Poetic Culture, Christopher Beach questions the cultural significance of poetry, both as a canonical system and as a contemporary practice. By analyzing issues such as poetry's loss of audience, the "anthology wars" of the 1950s and early 1960s, the academic and institutional orientation of current poetry, the poetry slam scene, and the efforts to use television as a medium for presenting poetry to a wider audience, Beach presents a sociocultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116782
• ISBN13: 9780810116788
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"