Lyric as Comedy : : The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America / / Calista McRae.
A poet walks into a bar. In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berrym...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like
- 1. Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman’s Dream Songs
- 2. Robert Lowell: The Noise of One’s Own Voice
- 3. A. R. Ammons: Comic Badness
- 4. Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors
- 5. Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn
- Notes
- Index