PULVERIZING PORTRAITS:
LYNN EMANUEL’S POETRY OF BECOMING
CAMELIA ELIAS
LITERARY CRITICISM
JANUARY 2010
ISBN 978-8799245680
PAPERBACK | 6×9 | B&W | 192 pp
BUY FROM AMAZON US | UK | BARNES & NOBLE
LIST PRICE $22
DESCRIPTION
Pulverizing Portraits provides the first book-length study of contemporary American poet Lynn Emanuel. Emanuel’s poetry is significant because it situates itself in relation to current debates about the state of poetry, creative writing in the academia, and the importance of drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to poetry via visual aesthetics, poststructuralist literary and theoretical perspectives, and philosophy. Elias traces the power of Emanuel’s writing and looks at her subtleties in combining intrinsic and formal constraints in poetry with extrinsic and socio-historical methodologies.
