{"product_id":"poems-of-the-american-empire-the-lyric-form-in-the-long-twentieth-century-9781609386610","title":"Poems of the American Empire: The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems of the American Empire \u003c\/i\u003eargues that careful attention to a particular strain of twentieth-century lyric poetry yields a counter-history of American global power. The period that Phillis covers-from Ezra Pound's \u003ci\u003eA Draft of XXX Cantos \u003c\/i\u003ein 1930 to Cathy Park Hong's \u003ci\u003eEngine Empire \u003c\/i\u003ein 2012-roughly matches what some consider the ascent and decline of the American empire. The diverse poems that appear in this book are united by their use of epic forms in the lyric poem, a combination that violates a fundamental framework of both genres' relationship to time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes a groundbreaking intervention by insisting that lyric time is key to understanding the genre. These poems demonstrate the lyric form's ability to represent the totality of history, making American imperial power visible in its fullness. Neither strictly an empty celebration of American exceptionalism nor a catalog of atrocities, \u003ci\u003ePoems of the American Empire \u003c\/i\u003eallows us to see both.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151324442967,"sku":"9781609386610","price":57.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781609386610.jpg?v=1762960831","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poems-of-the-american-empire-the-lyric-form-in-the-long-twentieth-century-9781609386610","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}