The grand permission : new writings on poetics and motherhood / edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dienstfrey, Patricia.

Hillman, Brenda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Poetry--Authorship.

Motherhood and the arts.

Women and literature.

Poetry--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2003]

Summary:

How writing and motherhood influence one another.

Contents:

Motherhood and Poetics / Maxine Kumin Kumin, Maxine

When as a Girl on the Plains of Minnesota / Maureen Owe Owe, Maureen

The World is not Precisely Round: Piercing Commotion (on writing and Motherhood) / Erica Hunt Hunt, Erica

Not a Perfect Mother / Stephane Brown Brown, Stephane

My Motherhood / Camille Roy Roy, Camille

Erasing Names, Multiplying Alliances / Claudia Keelan Keelan, Claudia

Writing National Birth / Toi Derricotte Derricotte, Toi

Emergence / Carolyn Forche Forche, Carolyn

Ob(Lit)Eration: Genre and Representation

The Other Sylvia Plath / Evan Boland Boland, Evan

Pulse and Impulse, The Zuihist / Kimiko Hahn Hahn, Kimiko

And the Motherhood of Poetics / Susan Griffin Griffin, Susan

Elaborations of Between: The Interpolation of a child into a Writer's Poetics / Mary Margaret Sloan Sloan, Mary Margaret

The Writing Being / Laura Moriarty Moriarty, Laura

Radiance in the Story Lattice / Patricia Dienstfrey Dienstfrey, Patricia

Parallel Play / Carla Harryman Harryman, Carla

Signals Given: Language Paradigms

Doublings / Alice Notely Notely, Alice

To book as in to foal. To son. / Kathleen Fraser Fraser, Kathleen

Notes on "Listen" / Alicia Ostriker Ostriker, Alicia

Beyond Impatience: On Motherhood and Poetry / Pam Rehm Rehm, Pam

Allowance: A Poetics of Motherhood / Frances N. Phillips Phillips, Frances N.

The One Absolutely Beautiful Thing: My Relationship to Poetry and Motherhood Through the Voices of Women Poets / Jill Bailosky Bailosky, Jill

Heart Murmer / Carol Muske-Dukes Muske-Dukes, Carol

In a Ring of Cows Is the Signal Given / C.D.Wright

A Third Space: Temporal and Other Crossings

Language and the Gaze at the Other: a Poetics of Birth / Gillian Conoley Conoley, Gillian

Eighty-Five Notes / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei

Resuscitations / Susan Gevirtz Gevirtz, Susan

Untitled / (M) Norma Cole Cole, (M) Norma

Poetma - Dale Going

First Things First notes toward a discovery of Being a Mother Being a Writer / Barbara Einzig Einzig, Barbara

Split, Spark, and Space / Brenda Hillman Hillman, Brenda

Gaps, Overflow, and Linkage: A Synesthesiac Look at Motherhood and Writing / Elizabeth Robinson Robinson, Elizabeth

The Pinocchain Ideal / Fanny Howe Howe, Fanny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0819566438

0819566446

OCLC:

52305107