Daniel Morris

Lyric Encounters (eBook, PDF)

Essays on American Poetry From Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Alexie bring aesthetics to bear on an exchange that asks readers to think carefully about the ethical demands of reading texts as a reflection of how we metaphorically "read" the world around us and the persons, places, and things in it. His survey focuses on poems that foreground scenes of conversation, teaching, and debate involving a strong-willed lyric speaker and another self, bent on resisting how the speaker imagines the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441159946
• Artikelnr.: 48422869

Autorenporträt

Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA. He is author of The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self (1995), Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art(2002), The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction (2006), After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photographers (2011), and Lyric Encounters (Bloomsbury, 2013). He has also published two volumes of poetry, Bryce Passage (2004) and If Not for the Courage (2010).