What the Lyric Is
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Author: Nicholson, Sara
Sara Nicholson's second poetry collection is a sharp, humorous and poignant exploration of how the lyric in poetry both fits and fails us. Conversant with dead poets, but skeptical of their conceits, Nicholson mixes lightness with melancholy in poems with titles like “Dante in Arkansas“: “My breath's been / Doomed to harmonize with fog.“ What the Lyric Is turns the pastoral tradition upside down, ever careful to remind us of the price for all this reflection and merriment.
ISBN 9780996778619. The Song Cave. pb. 112 pages. 14 x 19 cm.
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Sara Nicholson's second poetry collection is a sharp, humorous and poignant exploration of how the lyric in poetry both fits and fails us. Conversant with dead poets, but skeptical of their conceits, Nicholson mixes lightness with melancholy in poems with titles like “Dante in Arkansas“: “My breath's been / Doomed to harmonize with fog.“ What the Lyric Is turns the pastoral tradition upside down, ever careful to remind us of the price for all this reflection and merriment.
ISBN 9780996778619. The Song Cave. pb. 112 pages. 14 x 19 cm.
available