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03338aam a2200409 i 4500 001 145F37C2688611E8A317244297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180605010123 008 180118s2018 mdua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017039407 020 $a 1421425378 020 $a 9781421425375 035 $a (OCoLC)1007085553 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d TOH $d SHS $d CDX $d VYF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d JHE $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS310.G67 $b B46 2018 082 00 $a 811/.509 $2 23 100 1 $a Bennett, Chad, $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Word of mouth : $b gossip and American poetry / $c Chad Bennett. 246 30 $a Gossip and American poetry 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xiv, 326 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Hopkins studies in modernism 520 $a "Word of Mouth brings together the insights of queer and lyric theory to tell the story of how gossip modeled forms of sociality and voice that poets experimented with over the course of the twentieth century. Through a set of case studies of culturally diverse American poets--Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, James Merrill, and others--who absorbed and contended with the loose talk that swirled about them and their work, the book argues that gossip became a vehicle for the performance of alternative sexualities and concomitant meditations on alternative modes of poetic practice. At the heart of this argument is a queer revaluation of modern lyric poetry. Attending to gossip's key role in modern and contemporary poetry enables a recognition of the unpredictable ways that conventional understandings of the modern lyric poem--as, for example, an utterance smudging the lines between private and public, knowing and unknowing, intimacy and strangeness--have been shaped by, and afforded a uniquely suitable space for, the expression of queer sensibilities. More than simply mapping a curious poetic mode, then, Word of Mouth contributes a crucial, and largely neglected, queer perspective to current lyric studies and its renewed scholarly debate over the practices and forms of lyric poetry. The book presents new and instructive queer contexts for understanding the influential formal achievements of Stein, Hughes, O'Hara, and Merrill, and uncovers the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: the poet and the gossip -- "They will tell well": Gertrude Stein, address, and gossip -- "Ain't you heard?": Langston Hughes's queer gossip -- "The dish that's art": Frank O'Hara's self-gossip -- "The celestial salon": James Merrill and the afterlife of gossip -- Coda: status update. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Gossip in literature. 650 0 $a Privacy in literature. 650 0 $a Homosexuality and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Hopkins studies in modernism. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019015742.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180703025722.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=145F37C2688611E8A317244297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search