Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject Of Contemporary American Poetry

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.

• | Author: Gillian White
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 13, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674734394
• | ISBN-13: 9780674734395