Forms of Poetic Attention

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.

• | Author: Lucy Alford
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: January 28, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0231187548
• | ISBN-13: 9780231187541