This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent
American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the
writing of three poets associated with language writing, Charles
Bernstein, Michael Palmer and Lyn Hejinian, the discussion
considers the attempts of contemporary poetry to problematise the
identification of the lyric as a static model of subjectivity.
Central considerations motivating the discussion are: How do
contemporary lyric poets negotiate the propositions posed by
postmodern thought? What reading of lyricism can one formulate once
the self is displaced from centre stage and an 'experience' of
language takes its place? The book proposes that an aesthetic of
error enables us to approach the reconfiguration of the lyric in
recent innovative poetry. Drawing from elements of modernist poetic
practice, psychoanalytic theory, language philosophy and critical
theory this book pursues methods for understanding the demands
placed upon the reader of contemporary poetry.
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