Anything Like Us

Anything Like Us is a collection of poems with a critical introduction. In this introduction, I explore modern alternatives to Romantic and Neo-Romantic lyric expression. I conclude that a contemporary lyric that desires to be, in some fashion, about itself, must exhibit an acceptance of the mediating influences of time and language, while cultivating an inter-subjective point-of-view that does not insist too much on the authority of a single, coherent voice. The poems in Anything Like Us reflect, in both form and content, many of the conclusions advanced in the introduction. Nearly all the poems concern the desire for, and failure to find, meaningful connections in an uncertain world .

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Roth, Matthew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bond, Bruce
• Marks, Corey
• Shillingsburg, Peter

• contemporary poetry
• lyric poetry
• postmodernism
• contemporary lyric
• romantic

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Roth, Matthew
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 50840880
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