Robert Pinsky. Democracy, civiliza...
Robert Pinsky. Democracy, civilization and the Voice of poesy Princeton: Princeton University Pres 2002 96 pp $1495 This short work is not Robert Pinsky's first adventure into criticism. In 1976 he published an important manifesto-like consideration The Situation of verse which argued the merits of the "discursive" poetics practiced by dint of Cunningham, Bidart, Ammons, and others and expos the limitations of bardic, epiphanic, and surrealist casts of poets like Bly, Merwin, and Strand. His collection of essays, verse and the World (1988), featured readings of American and
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