"Lyric Lost and Found"

What is it about?

"Lyric Lost and Found" talks about found lyrics, lost lyrics, and the lyric "Lost and Found"--this last being an imaginary agency where snippets of language can be claimed and carried away by persons having satisfactory identification. (Any identification is considered satisfactory.) It's about the modernity of premodern poetry-- folksong, proverb, anonymous utterance. Experiments in making poetry without authors predate the twentieth century, though the avant-gardes before WWI had their own ways of rediscovering the procedure.

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Why is it important?

I disregard periodization and encourage others to do the same.

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