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Article: As print wanes, verse thrives.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2004
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Even before Dana Gioia points out the similarities between rap and Rudyard Kipling in the title essay of "Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture," one senses that heresy is afoot. In his preface to this vibrant collection, Mr. Gioia, who is the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, hints with appealing modesty that his approach to gauging the state of poetry today will be different from what we have come to expect from critical or scholarly surveys of this kind.
"Writers tend to apologize when collecting their essays and reviews into books," Mr. Gioia avers in the prelude to this ...