Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its language, forms, a

Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value. When value is addressed, the stan

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By tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetry's DNA al

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