American Women Poets in the 2lst Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan Poetry) (Paperback) By (author) Juliana Spahr, By (author) Claudia Rankine

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Title

American Women Poets in the 2lst Century

Subtitle

Where Lyric Meets Language

Authors and contributors

By (author) Juliana Spahr, By (author) Claudia Rankine

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
Width: 152 mm
Height: 229 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight: 590 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780819565471
ISBN 10: 0819565474

Classifications

BISAC category code: POE005010
BIC geographical qualifier: 1KBB
BIC time period qualifier: 3JM
Dewey: 811.6099287
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T3.1
BISAC category code: BIO007000

Publisher

University Press of New England

Imprint name

Wesleyan University Press

Publication date

13 August 2002

Publication City/Country

Hanover/US

Main description

Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to be experimental? How can lyric forms be authentic? This volume builds on the energetic tensions inherent in these questions, focusing on ten major American women poets whose collective work shows an incredible range of poetic practice.Each section of the book is devoted to a single poet and contains new poems; a brief "statement of poetics" by the poet herself in which she explores the forces -- personal, aesthetic, political -- informing her creative work; a critical essay on the poet's work; a biographical statement; and a bibliography listing works by and about the poet. Underscoring the dynamic give and take between poets and the culture at large, this anthology is indispensable for anyone interested in poetry, gender and the creative process.CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Harryette Mullen.

Review quote

"Just as Sappho helped defined the genre when it debuted it ancient Greece as a brief, personal song accompanied by the lyre, so the poets selected here-among them Rae Aramatrout, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen-force us to redefine lyric poetry. In particular, their use of modernist techniques such as fragmentation, disjunction, parataxis, and run-ons and their rejection of confessional techniques and the personal singular voice allow these poets to create a new structure. Many of the resulting images are startling and unique. . ."--Nedra C. Evers, Library Journal