Voicing American Poetry Wheeler Lesley
Voicing American Poetry Wheeler Lesley The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. However, voice is also a metaphor for…
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Voicing American Poetry Wheeler Lesley
The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. However, voice is also a metaphor for originality, personality, and the illusion of authorial presence within printed poetry--meanings that have been particularly useful (and provocative) in literary criticism and creative writing. The term poetic voice emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and many species of performance and sound-directed poetry, both mainstream and avant-garde.
Poetic voice is a crucial term precisely because of its ambiguity: both poets and critics invoke voice to argue for poetry's power. In Voicing American Poetry, Lesley Wheeler explores how and why American poetry of the twentieth century and beyond keeps returning to voice as an idea, even though the term frustrates definition.