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Hello (is this right?), I at and research in C20 and C21 Anglophone and poetics, including theory. I published a book called _Lyric Shame_hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is and am currently thinking about the of taste, the figure of in contemporary American , socially significant , irony, and poetic representations and theories of audience. On twitter I also posted night sky pictures a fair amount. :/

www.hup.harvard.eduLyric Shame — Gillian WhiteGillian 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.