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

by Gillian White (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $67.39

  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.