Most lyric poems depend on narrative texture, no matter how slight. Most narrative poems require moments of lyric description or musical intensity. But the centerpiece of the lyric poem is rarely a story and its sequence of events revealed through the passage of time.
For the poet drawn to lyric, the isolated human moment or gesture embodying the subsurface life, the stone in the river rather than the passage down the river, will comprise the central concerns of the poem. Through discussion of selected poems and in-class writing exercises, this workshop will explore the role of narrative structures in the lyric mode and how the poet can use and subvert those structures in writing and revising their own lyric poems.
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