Forms of Poetic Attention

Author/Contributor(s):	Alford, Lucy
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/04/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.