Lyric Shame

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Lyric Shame is written by Gillian White and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674967445 (ISBN 10) and 9780674967441 (ISBN 13).

Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.