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Thousands of Broadways

Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town

Thousands of Broadways( )
Author: Pinsky, Robert
Series title:The Rice University Campbell Lectures
ISBN:978-0-226-66944-1
Publication Date:May 2009
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $17.00
Book Description:

Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns--their...
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Book Details
Pages:106
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Performing Arts / Film / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.006 x 8.814 x 0.573 Inches
Book Weight:0.625 Pounds
Author Biography
Pinsky, Robert (Author)
Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and studied at Rutgers and Stanford Universities. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Wellesley College, and the University of California, Berkeley. For several years the poetry editor of The New Republic, he has won the Oscar Blumenthal Prize (1978) and Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright grants. His book of criticism, The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions (1976), is referred to often. He has argued for, and written, a poetry of discursiveness, one that can treat abstract thought and social reality as well as subjectivity and deep emotion.

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