Us Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012

Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and its social value within an era of global politics.

Author: P. Gwiazda
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/26/2014
Pages: 195
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781137470850

About the Author
Piotr K. Gwiazda is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of James Merrill and W.H. Auden (2007) and has also published two books of poetry, Gagarin Street (2005) and Messages (2012).