{"product_id":"lyric-as-comedy-calista-mcrae-9781501750977","title":"Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poet walks into a bar... In\u003ci\u003e Lyric as Comed\u003c\/i\u003ey, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyric as Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe close readings in \u003ci\u003eLyric as Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Calista McRae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501750976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501750977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021","brand":"Calista McRae","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43978387521791,"sku":"9781501750977","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1f7d647-1a05-4964-b35a-01eac5f2261d.jpg?v=1683241273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lyric-as-comedy-calista-mcrae-9781501750977","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}