Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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... Stidger 321 Sunday worship at Camp Kehonka 327 The lure of the “open” 343 John Burroughs at “Slabsides” 357 Robert Pinsky at a “Favorite Poem Project” event 386 SONGS of OURSELVES Introduction n My interest in the subject.
... Camp Fire Girls. The book ends with a forward glance at the poetry boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A sampling of re- sponses to former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's “Favorite Poem Project” allows me to ...
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Contents
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Celebrity and Cipher | 75 |
Alien and Intimate | 92 |
Listen My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools | 107 |
I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals | 165 |
Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends | 242 |
Gods in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse | 287 |
Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing OutofDoors | 336 |
Favorite Poems and Contemporary Readers | 381 |
Notes | 407 |
Index | 451 |