{"product_id":"lyric-liberalism-in-the-age-of-america","title":"Lyric \u0026 Liberalism In The Age Of America","description":"What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights?  Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire  uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry.Foley''s book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period--underpinned by the discourse of individual rights--forced poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of ‘lyric''\u0026gt;. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312677429630,"sku":"NW9780192857095","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780192857095.jpg?v=1778589145","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/lyric-liberalism-in-the-age-of-america","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}