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"[Poetry after Cultural Studies] should become an important part of debates about what poets do, what their poems are good for." — Stephen Burt, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
About Me
- Mike Chasar
- Salem, Oregon, United States
- Further thoughts on the intersection of poetry and popular culture: this being a record of one man's journey into good bad poetry, not-so-good poetry, commercial poetries, ordinary readers, puns, newspaper poetries, and other instances of poetic language or linguistic insight across multiple media in American culture primarily but not solely since the Civil War
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Praise for Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
"Mike Chasar's brilliant, witty book is the definitive guide to the growing field of American popular poetry. Empowered by prodigious research and informed by thorough knowledge of the traditional poetry canon, Chasar's five chapters take us deep into the way poetry functioned in the lives of ordinary people." — Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
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"Burma-Shave quatrains, newspaper columns, scrapbooks with thousands of stanzas held together by affection and paste, folksy, pseudonymous, nationally famous radio hosts and the fans who sent them an avalanche of homemade verse: these are just some of the materials taken seriously in Mike Chasar’s extraordinarily memorable, and likely influential, study of popular American verse, and of the popular culture that grew up around it, for most of the twentieth century. Chasar combines the painstaking, arduous archival methods of real historians with the close analyses that we expect from literary critics, applied to verse, to images, and to informative prose ephemera. He persuasively links Williams Carlos Williams’s innovations to roadside signs, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to the Hallmark card; he may change how you see some eminent writers’ work. Even more than that, however, Chasar should get twenty-first-century readers to sit up and notice the uses that so many Americans, only a couple of generations ago, found for the poetry that they enjoyed. Or, to take up a mode that Chasar appears to be the first to analyze: THIS OLD-TIME VERSE/ HAS LOTS TO SAY/ IF YOU CAN READ IT/ CHASAR’S WAY. His book is an ambitious, serious claim on present-day literary studies; it’s also a surprise, and a delight." — Stephen Burt, Harvard University, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
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"As Bob Dylan put it, 'We have our ideas about poets,' and we certainly have our ideas about poetry. Lately, those ideas have led to a national outcry in favor of bringing poetry back into American public life. But in Everyday Reading, Mike Chasar shows us that if we can rethink our ideas about poets and poetry, we will find that poems have always been part and parcel of modern life. This is an important—really, a necessary—book for anyone interested in modern poetics, in the history of reading, in the many appearances of poetry in the era of its supposed disappearance." — Virginia Jackson, University of California Irvine, author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading
•
"This breakthrough study convincingly shows that American poetry in the opening decades of the twentieth century, far from being a largely elitist product that appealed to a limited audience, circulated among a number of different readers to a remarkable degree and left its traces in surprising areas." — Edward Brunner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Cold War Poetry
•
"The lyric spring will never cease creating an emotional pressure, sought after by every searching consciousness—this is what Mike Chasar ... has shown in his book Everyday Reading" — Marina Zagidullina, New Literary Observer
•
"[T]he originality of Chasar's close readings, the sheer amount of research informing each chapter, and the speculations on what can be learned from such careful analyses of popular cultural practices make Everyday Reading not so everyday and well worth reading." — Lisa Steinman, The Journal of American History
•
"[The] tension between the poetic and the popular is the crux of Chasar's fun and thoughtful book. Chasar is a literary archaeologist. He excavates the poetry in Burma Shave ads, literary scrapbooks of the 1920s and 1930s, old time radio shows, and yes, even Hallmark cards. His close reading of [Paul] Engle's poem 'Easter' as well as the reproduction of the actual card is genius. His thesis is that early-twentieth-century market culture was saturated with poetry (as opposed to 'Poetry') that was participatory rather than exclusionary. This emotional interactivity with poetry, Chasar posits, set the stage for the bizarre matrix of media, commerce, and culture that would come to define the second half of the twentieth century." — Dean Rader, American Literature
•
"Everyday Reading goes far in illustrating how poetry played a much larger role in most Americans' lives than it does today. Chasar paints a picture of a more various and ultimately dissident American public than most might have expected, a public for whom poetry was a crucial part of an overall strategy to counter the dominant political, economic, and social paradigms of their era. Written beautifully and researched meticulously, Everyday Reading will prove an important resource for political and cultural historians, literary scholars, and anyone else interested in how poetry transcends the page and becomes an active part of how we spend our days." — Daniel Kane, Journal of American Studies
•
"Highly recommended." — Choice
•
"Everyday Reading is sure to act as a touchstone for scholars interested in popular digital literature as well as the contemporary avant-garde....[It] concludes with a flourish: an anecdote about the author's grandmother's use of clipped poetry in wartime letters to her husband that evidences Chasar's arguments while remaining personal and poignant. It is a fitting moment for a book that is so innovative, important, and constantly successful" — David Levine, College Literature
•
"Scrapbooking, which appears in other chapters following the first one, becomes the controlling metaphor for Chasar's study—and for reading habits today. With so many cultural products driven by individual tastes and various engines of a global economy, readers inevitably select and construct their own 'tradition,' which may have much or little to do with what they have been taught is important. Chasar's well-documented, thoughtful book offers the larger picture of this phenomenon, of which the battle for the best is only part of the story." — Rhonda Pettit, Reception
•
"A brilliantly written book, startling the reader with his thorough research and analysis" — Sheila Erwin, Portland Book Review
"Mike Chasar's brilliant, witty book is the definitive guide to the growing field of American popular poetry. Empowered by prodigious research and informed by thorough knowledge of the traditional poetry canon, Chasar's five chapters take us deep into the way poetry functioned in the lives of ordinary people." — Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
•
"Burma-Shave quatrains, newspaper columns, scrapbooks with thousands of stanzas held together by affection and paste, folksy, pseudonymous, nationally famous radio hosts and the fans who sent them an avalanche of homemade verse: these are just some of the materials taken seriously in Mike Chasar’s extraordinarily memorable, and likely influential, study of popular American verse, and of the popular culture that grew up around it, for most of the twentieth century. Chasar combines the painstaking, arduous archival methods of real historians with the close analyses that we expect from literary critics, applied to verse, to images, and to informative prose ephemera. He persuasively links Williams Carlos Williams’s innovations to roadside signs, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to the Hallmark card; he may change how you see some eminent writers’ work. Even more than that, however, Chasar should get twenty-first-century readers to sit up and notice the uses that so many Americans, only a couple of generations ago, found for the poetry that they enjoyed. Or, to take up a mode that Chasar appears to be the first to analyze: THIS OLD-TIME VERSE/ HAS LOTS TO SAY/ IF YOU CAN READ IT/ CHASAR’S WAY. His book is an ambitious, serious claim on present-day literary studies; it’s also a surprise, and a delight." — Stephen Burt, Harvard University, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
•
"As Bob Dylan put it, 'We have our ideas about poets,' and we certainly have our ideas about poetry. Lately, those ideas have led to a national outcry in favor of bringing poetry back into American public life. But in Everyday Reading, Mike Chasar shows us that if we can rethink our ideas about poets and poetry, we will find that poems have always been part and parcel of modern life. This is an important—really, a necessary—book for anyone interested in modern poetics, in the history of reading, in the many appearances of poetry in the era of its supposed disappearance." — Virginia Jackson, University of California Irvine, author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading
•
"This breakthrough study convincingly shows that American poetry in the opening decades of the twentieth century, far from being a largely elitist product that appealed to a limited audience, circulated among a number of different readers to a remarkable degree and left its traces in surprising areas." — Edward Brunner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Cold War Poetry
•
"The lyric spring will never cease creating an emotional pressure, sought after by every searching consciousness—this is what Mike Chasar ... has shown in his book Everyday Reading" — Marina Zagidullina, New Literary Observer
•
"[T]he originality of Chasar's close readings, the sheer amount of research informing each chapter, and the speculations on what can be learned from such careful analyses of popular cultural practices make Everyday Reading not so everyday and well worth reading." — Lisa Steinman, The Journal of American History
•
"[The] tension between the poetic and the popular is the crux of Chasar's fun and thoughtful book. Chasar is a literary archaeologist. He excavates the poetry in Burma Shave ads, literary scrapbooks of the 1920s and 1930s, old time radio shows, and yes, even Hallmark cards. His close reading of [Paul] Engle's poem 'Easter' as well as the reproduction of the actual card is genius. His thesis is that early-twentieth-century market culture was saturated with poetry (as opposed to 'Poetry') that was participatory rather than exclusionary. This emotional interactivity with poetry, Chasar posits, set the stage for the bizarre matrix of media, commerce, and culture that would come to define the second half of the twentieth century." — Dean Rader, American Literature
•
"Everyday Reading goes far in illustrating how poetry played a much larger role in most Americans' lives than it does today. Chasar paints a picture of a more various and ultimately dissident American public than most might have expected, a public for whom poetry was a crucial part of an overall strategy to counter the dominant political, economic, and social paradigms of their era. Written beautifully and researched meticulously, Everyday Reading will prove an important resource for political and cultural historians, literary scholars, and anyone else interested in how poetry transcends the page and becomes an active part of how we spend our days." — Daniel Kane, Journal of American Studies
•
"Highly recommended." — Choice
•
"Everyday Reading is sure to act as a touchstone for scholars interested in popular digital literature as well as the contemporary avant-garde....[It] concludes with a flourish: an anecdote about the author's grandmother's use of clipped poetry in wartime letters to her husband that evidences Chasar's arguments while remaining personal and poignant. It is a fitting moment for a book that is so innovative, important, and constantly successful" — David Levine, College Literature
•
"Scrapbooking, which appears in other chapters following the first one, becomes the controlling metaphor for Chasar's study—and for reading habits today. With so many cultural products driven by individual tastes and various engines of a global economy, readers inevitably select and construct their own 'tradition,' which may have much or little to do with what they have been taught is important. Chasar's well-documented, thoughtful book offers the larger picture of this phenomenon, of which the battle for the best is only part of the story." — Rhonda Pettit, Reception
•
"A brilliantly written book, startling the reader with his thorough research and analysis" — Sheila Erwin, Portland Book Review
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Interesting Resources
- "Poetries" issue of the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
- America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- American Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson
- American Verse Project
- Antislavery Poetry at the Antislavery Literature Project
- Archive Notebook
- Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
- Berton Braley Cyber Museum
- Brian Reed's "The People, Yes, Thirties Modernism, and the Problem of Bad Political Poetry"
- Carriers' Addresses @ Brown U.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Claudia Schaefer-Rodriguez on "Peace, Poetry, and Popular Culture: Ernesto Cardenal and the Nicaraguan Revolution"
- Common-Place Online Journal
- Early English Poetry Ballads
- Edgar Guest Papers at the U of Michigan
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920 @ Duke U
- Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives
- English Broadside Ballad Archive (including the Pepys Ballad Archive)
- Everyday Laureates
- Favorite Poem Project
- Fisher Poets Gathering
- From the Catbird Seat
- George Orwell on good bad poetry in "Rudyard Kipling"
- George Orwell's "Poetry and the Microphone"
- Harris Collection of American Poetry & Plays
- Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
- Historic Oregon Newspapers
- Interview with David Trinidad on "Pop Culture & Poetry"
- Library of Congress Poetry Resources
- McGonagall Online
- Movies with Poetry
- Online Companion to Oxford's Anthology of Modern American Poetry
- Poetry Foundation's "Poetry in America" Report
- Poetry Scrapbooks: An Online Archive
- Silliman's Blog
- Slate's Bad Poetry Contest
- The First World War Digital Poetry Archive
- The Poetess Archive
- The Poetry Foundation Gets Interested in Good Bad Poetry
- The Writings on the Stall
- Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- Vowel Movers
- Walt Whitman Archive
- What is 'Popular Poetry'? by W.B. Yeats
- nano: new american notes online
Oregon Links
- 150 Books for 150 Years of Statehood
- Abigail Scott Duniway Papers
- Airlie Press
- Blood Orange Review
- Capital Taps: Fine Beer in Salem
- Center for Columbia River History
- Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
- Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote 1912-2012
- Clockworks Cafe & Cultural Center in Salem
- Desperately Seeking Salem
- Eat Salem
- Edible Portland
- Edwin Markham Papers
- F/Stop Fitzgerald's Public House in Salem
- Fisher Poets Gathering
- Friends of William Stafford
- Gold Man Review
- Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Lane Literary Guild
- Literary Arts Portland
- Mountains and Rivers Press
- Northwest Digital Archives
- OMSI Science Pubs
- On Bringing Back Chickens to Salem
- Oregon Arts Commission
- Oregon Brewers Festival
- Oregon Historical Society
- Oregon Humanities
- Oregon Newspapers Index
- Oregon Poet Laureate
- Oregon Poetic Voices
- Oregon Poetry Association
- Oregon Poetry Collection
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Oregon State Song
- Oregon State University Digital Collections
- Poetry Posts
- Poetry Press Week
- Portland Review
- Portland Zine Symposium
- Salem FM Internet Radio
- Salem Peace Mosaic Poetry
- Salem Public Library Events & Programs
- Salem's Third Thursday Poets
- Silverton Poetry Festival
- Small Doggies Magazine & Press
- Southern Oregon Digital Archives
- Tangent Reading Series
- Taste of Oregon
- The Switch
- Tin House
- Wandering Aengus Ciderworks
- Willamette University
- Willamette Writers
- William Stafford Archives
- Wordstock Festival
- Writers on the Edge
3 comments:
Hahaha! I hope that next time I read Lear I don't hear "oh oh oh oh"!
Love this.
Or T.S. Eliot for that matter:
O, O, O, O, O that Shakeshperian rag,
it's so elegant,
so intelligent....
It was cool to watch this video. I want to show you this definition essay. Have you seen it yet?
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