M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
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Think of a poet’s library and an idyllic scene comes to mind, right? We conjure a private quiet room, walls lined with neatly arranged shelves, others stuffed to overflowing, with a huge work desk piled with book-marked volumes and annotated pages where a literary legend faces the daily challenge of composition by crafting language into poetic expression. True, quite likely the room was also a site of existential turmoil and emotional struggle, flled with anxiety about validity and identity, and a fair amount of doubtful soul searching when in spite of the apparent hush, the clamor of the voices on the shelves drowned out the quiet. Defined by its collections and the work it enables, the private library persists as an ideal of rarified, even privileged, labor.
M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets…
M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).
Think of a poet’s library and an idyllic scene comes to mind, right? We conjure a private quiet room, walls lined with neatly arranged shelves, others stuffed to overflowing, with a huge work desk piled with book-marked volumes and annotated pages where a literary legend faces the daily challenge of composition by crafting language into poetic expression. True, quite likely the room was also a site of existential turmoil and emotional struggle, flled with anxiety about validity and identity, and a fair amount of doubtful soul searching when in spite of the apparent hush, the clamor of the voices on the shelves drowned out the quiet. Defined by its collections and the work it enables, the private library persists as an ideal of rarified, even privileged, labor.