Disappearing Ink (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dana Gioia
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: New York, Authors or writers, Music or musicians, Twenty-first century, Poetry or poets, California, Publishing or publishers, Cowboys or cowgirls, Printing, Popular music
In 1991, Dana Gioia published his celebrated essay “Does Poetry Matter?” in which he argued that poetry had become irrelevant to mainstream American culture. It no longer had a readership among the educated public but was confined to a small subculture located entirely in universities. Poets no longer wrote for a general audience, he said, but for other poets, which is to say other professors of English and creative writing, graduate students, and a small coterie of editors, publishers, and administrators. In “Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture,” the title...
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