In "Dying Modern," one of our foremost literary critics inspires
new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so
by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices
within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the
reviving voice, and the surviving voice. Through her deft readings
of modern poetry, Fuss unveils the dramatic within the elegiac: the
dying diva who relishes a great deathbed scene, the speaking corpse
who fancies a good haunting, and the departing lover who delights
in a dramatic exit.
Focusing primarily on American and British poetry written during
the past two centuries, Fuss maintains that poetry can still offer
genuine ethical compensation, even for the deep wounds and shocking
banalities of modern death. As dying, loss, and grief become ever
more thoroughly obscured from public view, the dead start
chattering away in verse. Through bold, original interpretations of
little-known works, as well as canonical poems by writers such as
Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wright,
and Sylvia Plath, Fuss explores modern poetry's fascination with
pre- and postmortem speech, pondering the literary desire to make
death speak in the face of its cultural silencing.
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