{"product_id":"look-round-for-poetry-brian-mcgrath-9780823299805","title":"Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his 1798 Advertisement to \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry \u003c\/i\u003etransforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, \u003ci\u003eLook Round for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian McGrath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823299805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823299805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023","brand":"Brian McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059894251775,"sku":"9780823299805","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71e62a2f-b469-4674-ab6c-0001b6f281f6.jpg?v=1685060895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/look-round-for-poetry-brian-mcgrath-9780823299805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}