Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie

by Daniel Morris

Book Overview

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry in dialogue with other forms of creative expression, including modern art, the novel, jazz, memoir, and letters.

Contesting readings of twentieth-century American poetry as hermetic and narcissistic, Morris interprets the lyric as a scene of instruction and thus as a public-oriented genre. American poets from Robert Frost to Sherman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441151567
• ISBN13: 9781441151568
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"