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Poetry's touch : on lyric address /

"To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like performing a script? William Waters pursues these questions by closely reading a selection of poems that say you to a human being: to the reader,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waters, William (William Addison)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Poems addressing contemporaries
  • Address as greeting, address as spell
  • The continuance of poems: monument and mouth
  • Hand-writing and readerly intimacy.