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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 October 2021
      21 October 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108990684
      9781108845724
      9781108964937
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990684
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.81kg, 438 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 438 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest
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    Book description

    Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea Brady reveals the contributions to poetics of people who are actually in bondage. How, the book asks, does our understanding of the lyric – and the political freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise – change, if we listen to the voices of enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyatt to Rob Halpern, Emily Dickinson to M. NourbeSe Philip, and Phillis Wheatley to Lisa Robertson, the book also examines poetry that emerged from the plantation and the prison. This book is a major intervention in lyric studies and literary criticism, interrogating the whiteness of those disciplines and exploring the possibilities for committed poetry today.

    Reviews

    ‘… monumental …’

    John Hawke Source: Australian Book Review

    ‘capacious, ambitious, judgmental, and obviously valuable.’

    Stephanie Burt Source: Critical Inquiry

    ‘… Brady offers a much-needed re-evaluation of the now common understanding of lyric as an expression of human freedom and transcendence.’

    Sarah Dowling Source: The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

    ‘This is such a superb and invigorating collection, breaking ground to discover the figure of our dream of lyrics song in all its lavish beauty, primitivist rhetoric and longing for ancient home in the language of the Is eye seeing itself to abstraction.’

    Adam Piette Source: Blackbox Manifold

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