Lyric encounters : essays on American poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie / Daniel Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Daniel, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Contents:

"Go home and write a page tonight": Subversive irony and resistant reading in Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B"

The erotics of close reading: Williams, Demuth, and "The Crimson Cyclamen"

Queering time: Allen Ginsberg, "america," and the Cold War

Active and passive citizenship in Emma Lazarus's "the New Colossus" and Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The Latin deli: an ars poetica"

Homosocial black male desire as mediated through the horn and the pen: elegy as love letter or love letter as elegy in Michael S. Harper's "Dear John, dear Coltrane"

Frank Bidart's voice and the erasure of Jewish difference in "Ellen West"

"The word gets around": Leslie Marmon Silko's theory of narrative survival in the delicacy and strength of lace

Before and after the fall: tribalism, individualism, and multicultural poetics in Sherman Alexie

Coda: Robert Frost's "mending wall": the case for the humanities classroom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441194428

1441194428

9781441151568

1441151567

OCLC:

826899284