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On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy

On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy

Pinsky, Robert

Paperback

Letters & EssaysPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0691278253
ISBN13: 9780691278254
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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

Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author

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.

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