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The Lyric in the Age of the Brain
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2016
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Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
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Nikki Skillman’s clear and eloquent book reshapes the landscape of modern American poetry. It explores the distinctiveness of poets’ engagement with the experience of mind, whether as embattled defenders of human mystery or shrewd explorers of synapses.
-- Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
-- Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
This important book argues that advances in brain science have made for significant changes in American poetry since the 1960s. Skillman’s writing is eloquent, often beautiful, meticulously alert to detail, and her judgments are sound and sensitive.
-- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
-- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
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Contents
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Introduction: The Lyric in the Age of the Brain
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1. Robert Lowell and the Chemistry of Character
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2. Physiological Thinking: Robert Creeley and A. R. Ammons
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3. James Merrill’s Embodied Memory
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4. John Ashbery’s Mindlessness
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5. Jorie Graham and the Ethics of the Eye
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Conclusion: Anti-Lyric in the Age of the Brain
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Notes
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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9780674970076
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