Book Description
This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction between sites of unintelligibility and sights of difficulty; while much has been said about modernist difficulty, little has been said about the attention that poets give to phenomena that by definition arrest, impede, obscure, damage, or destroy the capacity for intelligible representation.

About the Author
DeSales Harrison is Visiting Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century Poetry at Oberlin College. He has also taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, where he received his doctoral degree. In addition to his academic training, he is a candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City. Other publications include an recent article entitled ³Eros¹s Epitaph² in Variations, numerous reviews in the Boston Review and The Boston Book Review, as well as poems in the Antioch Review, the Iowa Review, and other small magazines.