Lyric Shame
Author | : Gillian White |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674734395 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674734394 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lyric Shame written by Gillian White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.