Acknowledgments --Introduction --The good lie - The politics of hedonism in Marilyn Hacker's "Love, death, and the changing of the seasons" --Bursting at the seams - Exploding the confines of reification with creative constraints in Harryette Mullen's "Sleeping with the dictiona…
"Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry argues that humor is not a superficial feature of a sma…
"Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry argues that humor is not a superficial feature of a sma…
Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative P…
by Bernstein, Charles, Kimmelman, Burt, Robinson, Elizabeth, Conners, Carrie, Fink, Thomas, Fink, Thomas, Murphy, Sheila E., Miller, Stephen Paul, Halden-Sullivan, Judith, Gallagher, Kristen, Javier, Paolo, Lazer, Hank, Luck, Jessica Lewis, Schmidt, Christopher, Tabios, Eileen R.
fromModern and contemporary poetics
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry con…