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Beyond McPoetry: Contemporary American Poetry in the Institutionalized Creative Writing Program Era

Porter, Julie LaRue2012

… Graham's body of work. In particular, I examine Helen Vendler's role, as our nation's most powerful poetry critic, in promoting Graham's poetry and popularizing a set of aesthetic values modeled largely after Graham's. Next, I consider Billy Collins' aggressive courting of the general reader of …

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