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Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry

By John Vincent (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1-349-63544-3, 978-1-137-06565-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-06565-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30441938 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIX, 215\231
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Gender Studies;Literaturegeneral;North American Literature;Twentieth-Centur

Description

Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets. He traces a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.

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