Lyric in its times : temporalities in verse breath and stone 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 new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets from Shakespeare Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire Frank OHara and J.H. Prynne. Breathtaking poetry Petrifaction Anti memorial elegy Lapidary On a raised beach Stone thresholds Dilapidation and singing stones A shower of needles On the tip of the tongue Trying times.