Forms of expansion : recent long poems by women / Lynn Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Lynn, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Epic poetry, American.

United States.

History.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, American--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Summary:

Acknowledgments Introduction: Pushing the Limits of Genre and Gender: Women's Long Poems as Forms of Expansion 1: "To Remember / Our Dis-membered Parts": Sharon Doubiago and the Complementary Woman's Epic 2: "Helen, Your Strength / Is in Your Memory": Judy Grahn's Lesbian Warriors and Gynocentric Tales of the Tribe 3: Sequences Testifying for "Nobodies": Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman 4: Measured Feet "in Gender-Bender Shoes": Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons 5: "The Silences Are Equal to the Sounds": Documentary History and Susan Howe's "The Liberties" 6: Grand Collage "Out of Bounds": Feminist Serial Poems by Beverly Dahlen and Rachel Blau DuPlessis Conclusion: This Genre Which Is Not One: A Short Wrap-up on Long Poems by Women Notes Works Cited Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index.

ISBN:

0226429709

0226429717

OCLC:

36084801