Poetry & pedagogy

Joan Retallack, Juliana Spahr

"The essays collected here suggestively address the possibilities, pleasures, and risks of teaching from the multiplicity of poetries that have proliferated since the sixties. They discuss how to create a lively, investigative poetry classroom and suggest ways to work with cultural implications of poetry in society. The aim is to invite students to experience and make meaning of the poetics of our contemporary world, one that is blatantly "multi"--Multi-cultural, lingual, racial, and ethnic."--Jacket.

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