Songs of Ourselves : : The Uses of Poetry in America / / Joan Shelley Rubin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rubin, Joan Shelley,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; PART I. THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE --; PART II. POETRY IN PLACE AND PRACTICE --; Coda "Favorite" Poems and Contemporary Readers --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674042964; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674042964
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joan Shelley Rubin.

In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.