{"product_id":"the-lyric-and-modern-poetry-brian-conniff-9780820405339","title":"The Lyric and Modern Poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting","description":"The lyric poem has long been considered a  timeless  form, and rigid lyric conventions inform most modern poetry and criticism. Yet these conventions are not indicative of anything  essentially poetic ; rather, they hide our culture's fundamental contempt for poetry, our refusal to take it seriously. They can help even a great poet to dismiss his own work as unimportant, as in the case of W.H. Auden; or they can provide the focus for an all-out attack on the Western metaphysical tradition, as in the case of Charles Olson. Because poets like Olson, Robert Creeley, Basil Bunting, and Louis Zukofsky question the assumptions most central to a lyric  genre,   it is their writing that best exposes, and best resists, our deep distrust of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Conniff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820405337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820405339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Brian Conniff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453407572223,"sku":"9780820405339","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_954b5d27-1425-4aae-b123-eff207dc547b.jpg?v=1777300061","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lyric-and-modern-poetry-brian-conniff-9780820405339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}