Lyric encounters : essays on American poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie /
Morris, Daniel,1962-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Go home and write a page tonight": Subversive irony and resistant reading in Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B" -- The erotics of close reading: Williams, Demuth, and "The Crimson Cyclamen" -- Queering time: Allen Ginsberg, "america," and the Cold War -- Active and passive citizenship in Emma Lazarus's "the New Colossus" and Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The Latin deli: an ars poetica" -- Homosocial black male desire as mediated through the horn and the pen: elegy as love letter or love letter as elegy in Michael S. Harper's "Dear John, dear Coltrane" -- Frank Bidart's voice and the erasure of Jewish difference in "Ellen West" -- "The word gets around": Leslie Marmon Silko's theory of narrative survival in the delicacy and strength of lace -- Before and after the fall: tribalism, individualism, and multicultural poetics in Sherman Alexie -- Coda: Robert Frost's "mending wall": the case for the humanities classroom.
American poetry
Lyric poetry