Abstract:

The limited prosodic literacy of revamped formalisms perpetuates the whiteness of lyric reading. By prizing ironic distance and elevating the critic as form’s discoverer, the concept of poetic form reinscribes racialized value judgments even where critics hope to valorize nonwhite poetic strategies. Formalism should instead attend to the history that gave poets their sense of form. Nonwhite poets mark how this process of formalization, through which forms become abstracted and bear value, consistently entails racialization. They prompt us, I argue, not to form but to prosodic details whose contingency and phenomenological complexity suspend codes of formalist reading.

摘要：

改良后的形式主义的韵律素养有限，使得抒情诗阅读的白色性永久化。通过珍视讽刺距离并将批评家提升为形式的发现者，诗歌形式的概念重新划定了种族化的价值判断，即使批评家希望重视非白人的诗歌策略。相反，形式主义应该关注赋予诗人形式感的历史。非白人诗人指出，这种形式化的过程，通过这个过程，形式变得抽象并具有价值，始终伴随着种族化。我认为，它们提示我们的不是形式，而是韵律细节，这些细节的偶然性和现象学的复杂性悬置了形式主义阅读的准则。