Queer Lyrics

Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-349-63544-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vincent, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Snags and Gags: Cruising the Difficult Rhetorical Suspense, Sexuality and Death in Whitman's "Calamus" Poems "Reports of looting and insane buggery behind altars": John Ashbery's Queer Poetics "A Mirror at the End of a Long Corridor": Moore, Crane, Closure The Magician's Advance: Late Moore Danced Undone: Performances of Resignation and Exhaustion in Crane's Lyrics The End of the Line: Spicer in Love

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN VINCENT is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.