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Private poets, worldly acts : public and private history in contemporary American poetry
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Private poets, worldly acts : public and private history in contemporary American poetry

Author: Kevin Stein
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kevin Stein
ISBN: 0821411632 9780821411636
OCLC Number: 34514573
Description: xv, 190 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Worldly Acts: History and Twentieth-Century American Poetry -- Ch. 1. Learning To "Live With What Was Here": Robert Lowell and Adrienne Rich -- Ch. 2. "Everything the Opposite" of History: A Literary Basis for the Anti-Literary in Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems -- Ch. 3. "A Dark River of Labor": Work and Workers in James Wright's Poetry -- Ch. 4. Why "Nothing Is Past": Philip Levine's Conversation with History -- Ch. 5. Vietnam and the "Voice Within": Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau -- Ch. 6. Lives in Motion: Multiple Perspectives in the Poetry of Rita Dove -- Ch. 7. Manipulating Cultural Assumptions: Transgression and Obedience in David Wojahn's Rock 'n' Roll Sonnets -- Ch. 8. "The Hour Farthest from God": Ethical Matters in Carolyn Forche's Poetry.
Responsibility: Kevin Stein.

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