Session Details

Wednesday, 27 December

89. “Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same”: Marriage and the Contemporary Lyric

8:45–10:00 p.m., 413, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: E. Jane Hedley, Bryn Mawr Coll.

1. “‘What My Hand Did’: Looking Again at Lowell’s The Dolphin,” Nick Halpern, North Carolina State Univ.

2. “Postmarital Dialogue in Meadowlands and The Beauty of the Husband,” E. Jane Hedley

3. “Marriage and Lyric Selfhood in the Poetry of Laura Kasischke,” Stephen Louis Burt, Macalester Coll.

Respondent: Helena Michie, Rice Univ.

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