{"product_id":"poetics-of-american-song-lyrics-paperback","title":"Poetics of American Song Lyrics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Pence\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLamar Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eGordon Ball\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poetics of American Song Lyrics\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and blues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Pence of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition for her poetry chapbook \u003cem\u003eThe Branches, the Axe, the Missing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Pence\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition for her poetry in \u003ci\u003eBranches\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423514738866,"sku":"9781617031915","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1693fd495cd87f6a60dd585bde98bc1d.webp?v=1778499332","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/poetics-of-american-song-lyrics-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}