The lyric in the age of the brain /
"Exploration of our inner life--perception, thought, memory, feeling--once seemed a privileged domain of lyric poetry. Scientific discoveries, however, have recently supplied physiological explanations for what was once believed to be transcendental; the past sixty years have brought wide recog...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The lyric in the age of the brain
- Robert Lowell and the chemistry of character
- Physiological thinking: Robert Creeley and A.R. Ammons
- James Merrill's embodied memory
- John Ashbery's mindlessness
- Jorie Graham and the ethics of the eye
- Conclusion: Anti-lyric in the age of the brain.