Lyric as comedy : the poetics of abjection in postwar America /
"Explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about personal experience"--
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like
- Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman's Dream Songs
- The Noise of Robert Lowell's Own Voice
- A. R. Ammons and Comic Badness
- Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors
- Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn.