Poetry's Afterlife Verse in the Digital Age / Kevin Stein. [print]

"Digital culture books"--Ser. t.p.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. On poets and aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? ; -- "The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry-- -- Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish ; -- "When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline-- -- Aesthetic dodo ; -- 2. On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction-- -- A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries-- -- These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts-- -- Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers" ; -- 3. On teaching and the writer's workshop. The hammer-- -- Voice: what you say and how readers hear it-- -- Why kids hate poetry-- -- Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems ; -- 4. After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.