Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 2

Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 , Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry—its language, forms, and musicality—volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions. In this volume, von Hallberg and Faggen have gathered a diverse selection of poets to explore questions such as: How does poetry instruct a society with a highly evolved knowledge industry? Do poems bear a relation to the disciplined idioms of learning? What do poets think of as int