Lyric Shame: The Lyric Subject of Contemporary American
Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades,Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by lyric shamean unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is,should be,and fails to be.Favored particularly by modern American poets,lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writers innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the s the lyric I