Elbow, Peter2024-04-262024-04-262008-02-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/23319A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar Award. I look back over my career as an ongoing attempt to democratize writing--operating from the stance of a "vernacular intellectual" (a concept coined by Grant Farret).American StudiesEnglish Language and LiteraturearticleARRAY(0x55934e5316a0)