id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lmvwnf4ysvdznaywqou6yhu47m Daniel Leary Poetic Guard 2011 3 .pdf application/pdf 2902 199 71 American Book Review, Volume 32, Number 4, May/June 2011, pp. Published by American Book Review Page 26 American Book Review Hammond's book is about. that contemporary American poetry has become as American literary instruction has become the standardized, academically sponsored product of-by-for The American Poetic Muse Hammond is at verses that lack the Muse, lack myself: yes, the book is about what poetry is, but Hammond, this editor-of-a-student, realized Hammond calls the whole MFA boondoggle "the American poets in order to win contests, same contemporary American poets. American poetry has become as This academic po' biz overflow took me by surprise as I read about it in Hammond's little but very poetry-writing teacher a rave evaluation. Now, the good stuff, the oxymoronic Hammond's three-way championing of the Muse. Hammond weaves the traditionalist T.S. Eliot with the path-blazing critic Harold Hammond does not dream the American dream. ./cache/work_lmvwnf4ysvdznaywqou6yhu47m.pdf ./txt/work_lmvwnf4ysvdznaywqou6yhu47m.txt