{"product_id":"the-situation-of-poetry-contemporary-poetry-and-its-traditions-paperback","title":"The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the nature of experience on the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author ranges for his often surprising examples from Keats to the great modernists such as Stevens and Williams, to the contents of recent magazines. He considers work by Ammons, Ashbery, Bogan, Ginsberg, Lowell, Merwin, O'Hara, and younger writers, offering judgments and enthusiasms from a viewpoint that is consistent but unstereotyped. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike his poetry, Robert Pinsky's criticism joins the traditional and the innovative in ways that are thoughtful and unmistakably his own. His book is a bold essay on the contemporary situation in poetry, on the dazzling achievements of modernism, and on the nature or \"situation\" of poetry itself.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate piece of work. I can't imagine anyone capable of reading this book and not learning from it.\"\u003cb\u003e--Hugh Kenner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.\"\u003cb\u003e--Robert Lowell \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 1978\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723377741887,"sku":"9780691013527","price":39.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bf5071596f8f3a9f8e778b7e48b00995.webp?v=1765098959","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-situation-of-poetry-contemporary-poetry-and-its-traditions-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}