UID:
almafu_9961151235902883
Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:
1-5017-5098-4
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1-5017-5097-6
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
Content:
A poet walks into a bar ... this book explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, the book finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. The book draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. It reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
,
Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like -- Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman's Dream Songs -- The Noise of Robert Lowell's Own Voice -- A. R. Ammons and Comic Badness -- Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors -- Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-5099-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501750991
