Lyric Trade
Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem
by Julia Bloch
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Pub Date Apr 29 2024 | Archive Date Apr 30 2024
University of Iowa Press | Contemporary North American Poetry Series
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Description
LITERARY CRITICISM
Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it’s used interchangeably with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or meaning. Lyric Trade is not yet another attempt to define the lyric, but instead it digs into how poems use lyric in relation to race, gender, nation, and empire.
Engaging with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., Lorine Niedecker, Alice Notley, and Myung Mi Kim, this book asks: What does lyric mean, and why should it matter to poets and readers? Lyric Trade argues that lyric in the postwar long poem not only registers the ideological contradictions of modernism’s insistence on new forms, but that it also maps spaces for formal reimaginings of the subject.
Advance Praise
“Lyric Trade is a capacious and distinctive intervention in contemporary lyric studies, whose examination of the relationships between long poems and lyric, subjectivity and form, and politics and theory is grounded in a deeply thoughtful series of readings of important twentieth-century poetics.”—Andrea Brady, author, Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint
“This is a book about the lyric in a time when the lyric itself has become overdetermined, not least because the subjectivity it subtends is similarly overdetermined. It is smart, well researched, and well written.”—Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of California, Irvine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781609389437 |
| PRICE | $85.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 262 |
