{"product_id":"lyric-as-comedy-the-poetics-of-abjection-in-postwar-america-hardback-9781501750977","title":"Lyric As Comedy; The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America (Hardback) 9781501750977","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLyric As Comedy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCalista McRae (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501750977\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poets examined are diverse, as are the poems McRae discusses, and gender and race awareness play a significant role in her conversation. McRae writes in a relaxed style with a wit and humor that belies the deep knowledge that informs her observations. A solid resource for those interested in poetry and current critical theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eMcRae's scholarly exposition of the comic in contemporary lyric is exhibited by her close-readings of poets in the later chapters of her book.\u003c\/p\u003e (Intertext) \u003cp\u003eLyric as Comedy is a sophisticated and challenging study that usefully draws our attention to the myriad ways that poets use the paradigm of the conventional lyric as a foil and source of humor, especially in their writing about the self. The book's incisive central idea—that contemporary poems are often funny because they resist the genre conventions and expectations of the form—opens the door to further exploration of the many comic modes flourishing across the landscape of contemporary US poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e (ALH Online Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet walks into a bar... In\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lyric as Comed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ey, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyric as Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe close readings in \u003ci\u003eLyric as Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Consider What That Feels Like\u003cbr\u003e 1. Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman's Dream Songs\u003cbr\u003e 2. Robert Lowell: The Noise of One's Own Voice\u003cbr\u003e 3. A. R. Ammons: Comic Badness\u003cbr\u003e 4. Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors\u003cbr\u003e 5. Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607799656728,"sku":"9781501750977","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lyric-as-comedy-the-poetics-of-abjection-in-postwar-america-hardback-9781501750977","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}