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Missed Communication: Three New Anthologies on The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, Allegrezza & Bianchi, eds (Cracked Slab, 2007); Lyric Postmodernisms, Reginald Shepherd, ed. (Counterpath Press, 2008); & TriQuarterly #128, the “Ultra-Talk” issue, Hamby & Kirby, eds.
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, volume 29, issue 2, pgs. 186-212. (2009)
  • Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University
Abstract

In “The Flexible Lyric” (from The Flexible Lyric; Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1999), Ellen Bryant Voigt makes a “long aside” in order “to admit unseemly optimism regarding the American poetry wars,” writing

Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.

Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Michael Theune. "Missed Communication: Three New Anthologies on The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, Allegrezza & Bianchi, eds (Cracked Slab, 2007); Lyric Postmodernisms, Reginald Shepherd, ed. (Counterpath Press, 2008); & TriQuarterly #128, the “Ultra-Talk” issue, Hamby & Kirby, eds." Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, volume 29, issue 2, pgs. 186-212. (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/theune/3/