Zapf H (2025)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2025
Publisher: transcript
Edited Volumes: Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging
Series: Global Sentimentality
City/Town: Bielefeld
Book Volume: 3
Pages Range: 49-63
ISBN: 978-3-8376-7417-0
In this article, Harald Zapf focuses on the US-American positions National Youth Poet Laureate and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and zooms in on two poets who held these positions: Amanda Gorman and Juan Felipe Herrera. Zapf argues that the American attempt to dignify poetry with a national office devalues the office of the poet. At the end of his article, he takes an asentimental but not completely unpassionate look at the democratic system of literature and its power.
APA:
Zapf, H. (2025). Sentimental Authority: America's National Poets Laureate. In Heike Paul, Sarah Pritz (Eds.), Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging. (pp. 49-63). Bielefeld: transcript.
MLA:
Zapf, Harald. "Sentimental Authority: America's National Poets Laureate." Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging. Ed. Heike Paul, Sarah Pritz, Bielefeld: transcript, 2025. 49-63.
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