Lyric shame : the "lyric" subject of contemporary American poetry / Gillian White.

By:

White, Gillian C, 1968- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674736313
0674736311

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lyric shameDDC classification:

811/.5409 23

LOC classification:

PS325 .W47 2014eb

Other classification:

HR 1769

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Contents:

You ought to be ashamed (but aren't): Elizabeth Bishop and the subject of lyric -- Something for someone: Anne Sexton, interpretation, and the shame of the confessional -- "Speaking in effect": identifying (with) Bernadette Mayer's shamed expressive practice -- Tired of myself: the 1990s & the 'lyric' shame poem -- afterword.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.