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03434aam a22004218i 4500 001 2AF452A06B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151021s2016 mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015041148 020 $a 0674545125 020 $a 9780674545120 035 $a (OCoLC)926061490 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d HLS $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS305 .S54 2016 082 00 $a 811.009 $2 23 100 1 $a Skillman, Nikki, $d 1982- $e author. 245 14 $a The lyric in the age of the brain / $c Nikki Skillman. 263 $a 1604 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 342 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The lyric in the age of the brain -- Robert Lowell and the chemistry of character -- Physiological thinking: Robert Creeley and A.R. Ammons -- James Merrill's embodied memory -- John Ashbery's mindlessness -- Jorie Graham and the ethics of the eye -- Conclusion: Anti-lyric in the age of the brain. 520 $a "Exploration of our inner life--perception, thought, memory, feeling--once seemed a privileged domain of lyric poetry. Scientific discoveries, however, have recently supplied physiological explanations for what was once believed to be transcendental; the past sixty years have brought wide recognition that the euphoria of love is both a felt condition and a chemical phenomenon, that memories are both representations of lived experience and dynamic networks of activation in the brain. Caught between a powerful but reductive scientific view of the mind and traditional literary metaphors for consciousness that have come to seem ever more naive, American poets since World War II have struggled to articulate a vision of human consciousness that is both scientifically informed and poetically truthful. The Lyric in the Age of the Brain examines several contemporary poets--Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, and experimentalists such as Harryette Mullen and Tan Lin--to discern what new language, poetic forms, and depictions of selfhood this perplexity forces into being. Nikki Skillman shows that under the sway of physiological conceptions of mind, poets ascribe ever less agency to the self, ever less transformative potential to the imagination. But in readings that unravel factional oppositions in contemporary American poetry, Skillman argues that the lyric--a genre accustomed to revealing expansive aesthetic possibilities within narrow formal limits--proves uniquely positioned to register and redeem the dispersals of human mystery that loom in the age of the brain."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American poetry $x Explication. 650 0 $a Experimental poetry, American. 650 0 $a Creative ability. 650 0 $a Art and science. 650 7 $a American poetry $x Explication. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807368 650 7 $a Art and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815430 650 7 $a Creative ability. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00882417 650 7 $a Experimental poetry, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918464 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021127.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161006024655.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2AF452A06B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search