Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

by Christina Pugh

Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic "ghosts" from the past. Acclaimed poet and award-winning teacher Christina Pugh is fascinated by how poems continually look backward into literary history. Her essays find new resonance in poets ranging from Emily Dickinson to Gwendolyn Brooks to the poetry of the present. Some of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472039601
• ISBN13: 9780472039609
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"