Poet and novelist Sina Queyras adds her voice to the international conversations about poetry and poetics taking place on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's news blog. Sina's poetry is uncaged by the dichotomy imposed between the lyric and the conceptual — and today she offers us her manifesto (in progress) on Lyric Conceptualism. Lyric Conceptualism, she says, is not new, but her manifesto is inspiring and refreshing. Among her declarations:
Lyric Conceptualism does not accept that content does not matter and still appreciates the way that content does not always matter.
Lyric Conceptualism suggests that to argue for the death of anything is not really that interesting.
The Lyric Conceptualist looks longingly at those who enjoy the benefits of community but turns away from the gated community.
Lyric Conceptualism imagines herself a boat, fluid, without handles, able to slip through definitions, anchor at will.
Read her complete manifesto on Harriet.
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