Download or read book Poetry in America written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry in America offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources. Where, in such times, can poetry emerge, the book asks—and answers—again and again. Largely set in rural places and small towns, these poems are politically committed but deeply sensuous, emotionally complex and compassionate. They take up the everyday in meaningful ways, and deliver it with blunt force, yet not without hope or bright humor.