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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2010
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 229–234.
Published: 01 August 2009
...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...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 67–105.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Mark Jones Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 71 of 252
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Alarmism, Public-Sphere Performatives, and the Lyric Turn:
Or, What Is ‘‘Fears in Solitude’’ Afraid...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 May 2004
...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...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 1–46.
Published: 01 August 2004
...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...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 119–145.
Published: 01 August 2011
...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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2009
...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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 49–61.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 205–228.
Published: 01 August 2009
...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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 159–182.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 183–202.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... 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...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
... 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. References Ahmed Sara . 2010 . The Promise of Happiness . Durham, NC : Duke University...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 117–123.
Published: 01 August 2001
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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...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2003
...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...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 159–178.
Published: 01 August 2014
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 35–65.
Published: 01 February 2008
... 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...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 39–44.
Published: 01 August 2022
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 95–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... as the final note. 2 I suggested that Bernstein's poetry is against the idea of a “personal voice” and constantly in work to dismantle the ideology of a “lyrical I”—as it is, except that: what I've said about individuality, about maintaining the critical awareness, openness, et cetera, amounts...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 3–15.
Published: 01 August 2017
... 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...
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