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Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse ??? and a new canon

By Tony Hoagland

Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon

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Readings — From the October 2011 issue

Radisson confidential

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By Jonathan Lethem

Readings — From the September 2007 issue

I know what you read last summer

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By Ursula K. Le Guin

Readings — From the December 1996 issue

In the canon, for all the wrong reasons

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By Amy Tan

Readings — From the December 1991 issue

Reading books, great or otherwise

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Readings — From the April 1991 issue

Debate the canon in class

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By Gerald Graff

Notebook — From the June 1990 issue

The other canon

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Readings — From the May 1990 issue

The canon and the wisdom of the East

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Who needs the great works?

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Readings — From the January 1989 issue

Pop culture, auto-canonized

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Article — From the June 1988 issue

The toy canon

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Don’t take Stanford’s core list seriously

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Article — From the May 1975 issue

The pleasures of reading

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By Lewis H. Lapham

Article — From the November 1965 issue

Greatness as a literary standard

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By Stanley Kauffmann

New books — From the May 1951 issue

The new American classics

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The lion's mouth — From the August 1920 issue

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