On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780691278254
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press


Description:

'Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.' Robert Lowell

For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium with poems brought to life by one person at a time gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate The Situation of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy.