Lyric as comedy : the poetics of abjection in postwar America / Calista McRae.

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"Explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about personal experience"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRae, Calista, 1986- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Abjection in literature.
Humor in literature.
American poetry.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like
  • Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman's Dream Songs
  • The Noise of Robert Lowell's Own Voice
  • A. R. Ammons and Comic Badness
  • Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors
  • Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn.