Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets. He traces a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Vincent uses formal concerns...
"John Ashbery and You" approaches Ashbery s critically neglected recent poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun you and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. Together, these devices produce effects new to Ashbery s oeuvre and offer readers new ways in to his work. "John Ashbery and You" argues that starting with "April Galleons" (1987), and reaching an apex in "Your Name Here" (2000), the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers. Vincent tracks these techniques but above all offers his readers tools to...
"John Ashbery and You" approaches Ashbery s critically neglected recent poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun you and an e...
The beauty and difficulty of Jack Spicer's poetry continues to resonate with contemporary audiences nearly fifty years after his death. After Spicer brings together work by ten eminent literary scholars to provide a long overdue exploration of Spicer's legacy even as it continues to unfold. As editor John Emil Vincent notes, it is Spicer's "boundary crashing"--in his poetry, poetics, and politics--that makes his work so powerful and relevant today. After Spicer extends the conversation between poet and reader that Spicer considered essential to the composition and survival of poems. Incisive...
The beauty and difficulty of Jack Spicer's poetry continues to resonate with contemporary audiences nearly fifty years after his death. After Spicer b...
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the p...
