{"product_id":"after-the-death-of-poetry-vernon-shetley-9780822313250","title":"After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America","description":"In this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic enterprise on the distant margins of contemporary culture. Along with a clear understanding of where American poetry stands and how it got there, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Death of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling set of prescriptions for its future, prescriptions that might enable the art to regain its lost stature in our intellectual life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In exemplary case studies, Shetley identifies the very different ways in which three postwar poets--Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and John Ashbery--try to restore some of the challenge and risk that characterized modernist poetry's relation to its first readers. Sure to be controversial, this cogent analysis offers poets and readers a clear sense of direction and purpose, and so, the hope of reaching each other again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vernon Shetley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822313251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822313250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/1993","brand":"Vernon Shetley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48807872954623,"sku":"9780822313250","price":112.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-death-of-poetry-vernon-shetley-9780822313250","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}