David C. Wojahn, professor of English, talks about his new book, From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2015). The book seeks to examine the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the cultural, technological and political transformations of our turbulent era. Each of the essays in this book makes an impassioned and nuanced argument against the so-called marginalization of poetry in contemporary American culture.

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