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Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry
John Emil Vincent
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Description for Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry
Hardcover. John Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets. He draws on a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 5S; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 387.
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, 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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294977
SKU
V9780312294977
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About John Emil Vincent
JOHN VINCENT is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.
Reviews for Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry
"Poetry lovers should be writing love poems to John Vincent - and not just queer ones. For he has done something very difficult and completely necessary: performed both formalist and thematic analyses of deliberately 'difficult' modern poetry with a view to considering connections between sexual identity and poetic closure. Even readers with an aversion to such poetry will find themselves ... Read more