{"product_id":"9781555974107","title":"Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Celebrated poet and author of \u003ci\u003eCan Poetry Matter?\u003c\/i\u003eoffers another bold, insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in contemporary culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry is an art that preceded writing, and it will survive television and video games . . . The problem won't be finding an audience. The challenge will be writing well enough to deserve one. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Ink\u003c\/i\u003e, Dana Gioia stakes the claim for poetry's place amid American popular culture, where poetry in its latest oral forms -rap, slam, performance-is transforming the traditional literary culture of the printed page. But, as the seminal title essay asks, \"What is a conscientious critic supposed to do with an Eminem or Jay-Z?\" In a brilliant array of essays that test the pulse of traditional and contemporary poetry, Gioia ponders the future of the written word and how it might find its most relevant incarnation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the clarity, wit, and feisty intelligence that made \u003ci\u003eCan Poetry Matter?\u003c\/i\u003e one of the most important and controversial books about literature and contemporary American society, Gioia again demonstrates his unique abilities of observation and uncanny prognostication to examine our complicated everyday relationship to art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061550727408,"sku":"9781555974107","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555974107_p0.jpg?v=1763757491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555974107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}