"The Poetics of American Song Lyrics" is the first collection of
academic essays that regards songs as literature and that
identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems
and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including
Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam
Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points
of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres
and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics
in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and
autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to
poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single
genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and
blues.
The first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives
on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and
the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters
such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through
conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss
sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems,
confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable
narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription
methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of
explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is
an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within
songs.
Charlotte Pence of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the author of "The
Writer's Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays." She is
also the winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition for her
poetry chapbook "The Branches, the Axe, the Missing."
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