| Author: | Gillian White | ISBN: | 9780674967441 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 1, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gillian White |
| ISBN: | 9780674967441 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 1, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
