Julia Bloch's new book, Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem, appearing in April from University of Iowa Press, is a deep consideration of how poems use lyric in relation to race, gender, nation, and empire.
“Lyric Trade is a capacious and distinctive intervention in contemporary lyric studies, whose examination of the relationships between long poems and lyric, subjectivity and form, and politics and theory is grounded in a deeply thoughtful series of readings of important twentieth-century poetics.”—Andrea Brady, author, Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint
“This is a book about the lyric in a time when the lyric itself has become overdetermined, not least because the subjectivity it subtends is similarly overdetermined. It is smart, well researched, and well written.”—Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of California, Irvine