PULVERIZING PORTRAITS
PULVERIZING PORTRAITS: LYNN EMANUEL’S POETRY OF BECOMING
CAMELIA ELIAS
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.
6x9” | B&W | 192 pp
ISBN 978-8799245680
CATEGORY
Literary criticism
EDITION
Standard paperback 2010 | $22
NOTE
14 years after this book was written, Lynn Emanuel acted as one of the three academic opponents at professor Elias’ successful defence of her second doctoral degree, the Dr. Phil. habilitation dissertation.
