Poetics of American Song Lyrics

by Lamar Alexander, Brian Howe, Jeffrey Roessner, et al.

Book Overview

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617031917
• ISBN13: 9781617031915
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"