A story larger than my own : women writers look back on their lives and careers / edited by Janet Burroway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burroway, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Literary collections.

Women authors, American.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 199 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Summary:

In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together essays and poems by nineteen accomplished women, all now over the age of sixty, who challenged the status quo and paved the way for future generations of writers. Taken together, their stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable cohort of women. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Janet Burroway

The older writer in the underworld / Julia Alvarez

On craft / Margaret Atwood

The ratio is narrowing / Madeleine Blais

Parsing ambition / Rosellen Brown

Mothers and daughters / Judith Ortiz Cofer

The offices of my heart / Toi Derricotte

Working on the ending / Gail Godwin

The potholder model of literary ambition / Patricia Henley

Breaking the final taboo / Erica Jong

Passing it on / Marilyn Krysl

Metamorphosis: from light verse to the poetry of witness / Maxine Kumin

On certainty / Honor Moore

Splitting open: some poems on aging / Alicia Ostriker

Old woman, or nearly so myself: an essay in poems / Linda Pastan

Public appearances / Edith Pearlman

Say yes / Hilda Raz

Boys and girls / Jane Smiley

The stories from which I come / Laura Tohe

What I know / Hilma Wolitzer.

ISBN:

9780226014074

022601407X

9780226014104

022601410X

OCLC:

855858270