Lyric Trade

Julia Bloch is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of three books of poetry and the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.

“Lyric Trade is a capacious and distinctive intervention in contemporary lyric studies, whose examination of the relationships between long poems and lyric, subjectivity and form, and politics and theory is grounded in a deeply thoughtful series of readings of important twentieth-century poetics.”—Andrea Brady, author, Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint“This is a book about the lyric in a time when the lyric itself has become overdetermined, not least because the subjectivity it subtends is similarly overdetermined. It is smart, well researched, and well written.”—Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of California, Irvine