Poetic Culture Contemporary American Poetry Between Community and Institution

"[This book] is convincing as a description of the relation of mainstream and experimental poetries to poetries that exist wholly or partially as popular culture....The great strength of Christopher Beach's excellent study is that it looks to the aesthetic realm while refusing to reduce the aesthetic to the traditional work of poetic art: the well-made poem. What Proust called 'mingled joys,' the impurity of the aesthetic experience, finds ample testimony in Beach's portrayal of the persistent variety and vitality of American poetry.Beach, Christopher is the author of 'Poetic Culture Contemporary American Poetry Between Community and Institution' with ISBN 9780810116771 and ISBN 0810116774.