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... poetry. When his work manages to describe the time of its own reading in the time of its own reading, we experience mediacy immediately. This review of John Ashbery's Collected Poems, 1956–1987 (Library of America, No. 187) explores what I call the “lyric mediacy” of Ashbery's work and considers how his...

...Mark Jones Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 71 of 252 6943 boundar Alarmism, Public-Sphere Performatives, and the Lyric Turn: Or, What Is ‘‘Fears in Solitude’’ Afraid...

...Aamir R. Mufti Duke University Press 2004 For Professor C. M. Naim, ihtiraman Towards a Lyric History of India Aamir R. Mufti For Professor C. M. Naim, ihtiraman The whole cannot...

...Rashmi Bhatnagar; Renu Dube; Reena Dube Duke University Press 2004 Meera’s Medieval Lyric Poetry in Postcolonial India: The Rhetorics of Women’s Writing in Dialect as a Secular Practice of Subaltern Coauthorship and Dissent Rashmi Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube...

...Elizabeth Willis “Lyric Dissent” discusses the social structure and context of lyric address, particularly the lyric's propensity for multiple voicings beyond the personal. Reading the poems of William Carlos Williams in the context of modernism's evolving countertraditions and the violent backdrop...

...Christi Ann Merrill This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk...

...Christian Bök Current writers among the avant-garde have begun to subvert the romantic bastions of sublime creativity and eminent authorship by adopting both piracy and parody as sovereign, aesthetic values. Such exponents of what critics have now dubbed “conceptual literature” disavow the lyrical...

... that outlines the context in which Rakim's work was heard by the author; section 1, “Follow Him into a Flow,” which contrasts Rakim's work with that of other Rappers at the time the track was released; section 2, “Austinian Performativity,” which diagrams Rakim's lyrics in the context of Austin's constative...

...Marjorie Perloff This essay studies the particular conjunction of documentation (“hard facts”) and highly wrought lyric verse and prose in Susan Howe's book The Midnight , a collage text consisting of historical extracts, archival fragments, biographical information, photographs, drawings, cited...

... the humanizing rhetoric and lyrical modes of conventional African American poetry, these poets use the trope of the objectified Black body to deconstruct linguistic processes of racial reification from within. [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 race objectification...

... of the '90s has to say about globalization and indigenous and immigrant rights through its insistent turn against standard English. And it concludes by looking briefly beyond the '90s at the rise of lyric and plain speech poetries after the U.S. 9/11, which in turn are contested by the turn to appropriation...

.... First, a meditative Stevens: unagonistic, verbally ruminative, romantic (but called “postromantic”), a repository of human responses, post-Christian yet lyric—a poet whose verse does not make truculent, discordant claims but rather “eke[s] out the mind,” forming “the particulars of sounds.” Secondly...

... on the strange heteroglossia and other-voiced cultural uncanny coursing through Faye Kicknosway’s poetry.1 Far from the U.S. apparatus and its lyric fame-making modes, Kicknosway makes a fresh, estranged antivoice and highly original poetry, taking risks in form and de-habituated technique as she goes...

... tradition to pursue, the expres- sivist (Romantic pathos) or the mimetic (classical ethos).11 Bloom takes the more radical Nietzschean tack: the poem, and the lyric poem especially, is a competition (his word is agon) between what we feel and what is real, a staging area of the struggle between self...

...Adam Gussow Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘Fingering the Jagged Grain Ellison’s Wright and the Southern Blues Violences Adam Gussow ‘‘Brutal Experience’’ and Lyric Flight If we are still capable of valuing our writers...

... of the 1970s, “His imagination and his voice blasted open by Beat aesthetics, Dylan then pushed his own reinventions of folk music into realms that were every bit as mysterious and mythic as the old traditional music.”15 While working in song forms from ballad to blues to love lyrics and gospel...

... at a null point between interior tumult and external deprivation. They cohere as an iconoclastic, never emulated (never rivaled) instance of lyrical “modernism” that defies Walter Benjamin’s cynical quip that the modern is merely “the new in the context of what has always already been...

... as offering a new conception of the prophetic voice , or poetic speech , but one must bear in mind that writing, for Nobby, precedes speech, and that prophecy is not speech but writing or “signs”—“poetry is writing”—just as the lyric “voice” in poetry, as an artifact of writing, has little to do with actual...

... as being central in Charles Bernstein's poetry. The poems span his entire active career; there are poems and essays (in a way, my prototype has been Bernstein's 1999 volume of “speeches and poems,” My Way , University of Chicago Press); poem-essays and essay-poems; short lyrical pieces that often...

... to think about the poetics of length. After romanticism foregrounded the lyric, the short poem is now what most readers and writers think of as poetry, and any given poem of Dickinson’s may strike a reader as poetry itself. Dickinson’s work was barely published in her lifetime—a few poems— and once...