Bel Canto

by Virginia Konchan

Book Overview

Poems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity.

Bel Canto is a collection belonging to the post-confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast-talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486843
• ISBN13: 9780887486845
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.1"