Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem - Couverture souple

Bloch, Julia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609389433 ISBN 13 : 9781609389437

Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2024

Synopsis

Sometimes the word "lyric" seems to appear everywhere: either it's used interchangeably with the word "poetry" or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or meaning. Lyric Trade is not yet another attempt to define the lyric, but instead it digs into how poems use lyric in relation to race, gender, nation, and empire.

Engaging with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., Lorine Niedecker, Alice Notley, and Myung Mi Kim, this book asks: What does lyric mean, and why should it matter to poets and readers? Lyric Trade argues that lyric in the postwar long poem not only registers the ideological contradictions of modernism's insistence on new forms, but that it also maps spaces for formal reimaginings of the subject.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julia Bloch is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of three books of poetry and the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Iowa Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609389433
• ISBN 13: 9781609389437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible