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Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Konchan, Virginia

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Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0887486843
ISBN13: 9780887486845
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: Dec 20 2022
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Poems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity.

Bel Canto is a collection belonging to the post-confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast-talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. Suggesting that revolutionary change will be linguistic, or will not be at all, Bel Canto critiques the alienating forces of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy by restoring primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity through a kaleidoscopic array of registers, modes, and idioms ironic and sincere. What human could stay so quiet? asks the speaker of Epistle One who is secretly on fire.

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