Lyric In Its Times: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone

by John Wilkinson

Book Overview

In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350093912
• ISBN13: 9781350093911
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"