The Long Schoolroom – Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle

The Long SchoolroomLessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle\nAuthor(s): Allen Grossman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472096374, 978-0472096374\nSynopsis\nAllen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the \""Long Schoolroom\"" of poetic principle--where he eventually learned to reconsider the notion that poetry was cultural work of the kind that contributed unambiguously to the peace of the world. The jist of what he learned--of what his \""lessons\"" taught him--was (in the sentence of Oliver Wendell Holmes): \""Where most men have died, there is the greatest interest.\"" According to Grossman, violence arises not merely from the \""barbarian\"" outside of the culture the poet serves, but from the inner logic of that culture; n.