Forms of Poetic Attention
by Lucy Alford
384 pages· 2019· ISBN 9780231187541
About
Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology of attention.
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