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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language / edited by Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- Women--United States--Poetry.
- Women.
- American poetry--21st century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 439 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- American women poets in the twenty-first century
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism focusing on ten major American women poets -- Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, and Harryette Mullen -- whose collective work shows an incredible range of poetic practice. 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.
- Contents:
- Rae Armantrout 18
- Poems
- As We're Told 18
- The Plan 18
- View 20
- Up to Speed 20
- Manufacturing 22
- Poetic Statement
- Cheshire Poetics 24
- Lyricism of the Swerve
- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout / Hank Lazer 27
- / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge 53
- from Four Year Old Girl 53
- from Kali 56
- from The Retired Architect 60
- By Correspondence 61
- A "Sensitive Empiricism"
- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations / Linda Voris 68
- / Lucie Brock-Broido 94
- The One Thousand Days 94
- Soul Keeping Company 95
- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96
- Am Moor 98
- Carrowmore 99
- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties 100
- "Subject, Subjugate, Inthralled"
- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido / Stephen Burt 103
- / Jorie Graham 127
- Exit Wound 127
- Covenant 131
- Prayer 134
- Gulls 135
- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138
- In/Silence 140
- Philosopher's Stone 142
- At the Border 146
- Jorie Graham and Emily Dickinson
- Singing to Use the Waiting / Thomas Gardner 148
- / Barbara Guest 178
- Valorous Vine 178
- If So, Tell Me 179
- Confession of My Images 180
- Defensive Rapture 181
- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183
- The Farewell Stairway 185
- Words 188
- The Forces of the Imagination 189
- Implacable Poet, Purple Birds
- The Work of Barbara Guest / Sara Lundquist 191
- / Lyn Hejinian 222
- from Writing Is an Aid to Memory 222
- from Happily 229
- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235
- Parting with Description / Craig Dworkin 242
- Brenda Hillman 267
- A Geology 268
- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California Geological Syntax 276
- "Needing Syntax to Love"
- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of Brenda Hillman / Lisa Sewell 281
- / Susan Howe 308
- from Chair 308
- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover 325
- Articulating the Inarticulate
- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe / Ming-Qian Ma 329
- / Ann Lauterbach 353
- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353
- Stones (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 358
- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363
- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments / Christine Hume 367
- / Harryette Mullen 400
- Wino Rhino 400
- Fancy Cortex 400
- Music for Homemade Instruments 401
- The Anthropic Principle 401
- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402
- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403
- "Sleeping with the Dictionary"
- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," / Elisabeth A. Frost 405.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0819565466
- 0819565474
- OCLC:
- 49225284
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