Lyric In Its Times: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone

by John Wilkinson

Overview

In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets, from Shakespeare, Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire, Frank O'Hara and J.H. Prynne.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350211551
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/24/2020
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

John Wilkinson is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, USA. His previous publications include the poetry collections Reckitt's Blue (2013) and Ghost Nets (2016) and the critical book The Lyric Touch (2007).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Breathtaking Poetry
Chapter 2. Petrifaction and Wave Power
Chapter 3. Anti-Memorial Elegy
Chapter 4. Lapidary
Chapter 5. On a Raised Beach
Chapter 6. Stone Thresholds
Chapter 7. Dilapidation and Singing Stones
Chapter 8. A Shower of Needles
Chapter 9. On the Tip of the Tongue
Chapter 10. Trying Times
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Remarkable ... This is a book to marvel at and with, to be inspired by as companionable breath, as tremendous defence of poetry, as manifesto for the rocky three-phase dialectical enactments of art in living language generating the fourth dimension of lyric." --Blackbox Manifold

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