In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essays, 1980-1991

by Alan Shapiro

Book Overview

Alan Shapiro is not only a much-lauded poet but also one of America's most intelligent and clearheaded thinkers about poetry. In Praise of the Impure collects his passionate, rigorously argued essays on the situation of poetry in American culture today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810150255
• ISBN13: 9780810150256
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"