@article{437386,
      recid = {437386},
      author = {Pence, Charlotte.},
      title = {The poetics of American song lyrics [electronic resource]  /},
      publisher = {University Press of Mississippi,},
      address = {Jackson :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 287 p.)},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The Poetics of American Song Lyrics 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. The 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437386},
}