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Cambridge University Press Virtuosity: Risk and Excess in Poetic Form (Elements in Poetry and Poetics)

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This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It sees virtuosity not as a fixed attribute but a strategic choice - one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the reader's experience. Certain forms are themselves virtuosic, inviting expectations of difficulty, display, and compositional drama. Through readings of Paul Muldoon, Tyehimba Jess, and Joyelle McSweeney, the Element explores how poetic virtuosity stages not just skill, but stakes: a charged interplay of technique and expressivity. These poets embrace formal extravagance and linguistic excess, making visible the labour of composition while risking the charge of style over substance. Drawing on a nineteenth-century lineage of debates in music and art, the Element traces how poetic virtuosity confronts crisis. In doing so, it rethinks poetic form as an aesthetic of risk, outpouring, and resistance.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1009661833
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Poetry & Poets
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 July 2026
Listed Since: 18 March 2026

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