Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry

Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry

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Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry
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Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry

Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry

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Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

Author(s): Gillian White
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-10-13
Pages: 361
Categories: Literary Criticism

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