Print version: McRae, Calista. Lyric as comedy : the poetics of abjection in postwar America. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781501750991
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like -- Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman’s Dream Songs -- The Noise of Robert Lowell’s Own Voice -- A. R. Ammons and Comic Badness -- Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors -- Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn.
"Explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about personal experience"-- Provided by publisher..