American Women Poets in the 21st Century : Where Lyric Meets Language

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

Contributor:

Spahr, Juliana.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry American women poets in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry--Women authors.

Women--United States--Poetry.

American poetry--Women authors--21st century--United States--Poetry.

American poetry.

Women.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry--Women authors.

Women--United States--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

American Women Poets in the 21st Century

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.

Contents:

Cover; AMERICAN WOMEN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; RAE ARMANTROUT; POEMS; As We're Told; The Plan; View; Up to Speed; Manufacturing; POETIC STATEMENT; Cheshire Poetics; LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE; The Poetry of Rae Armantrout; MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE; POEMS; From Four Year Old Girl; From Kali; From The Retired Architect; POETIC STATEMENT; By Correspondence; A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM"; Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations; LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO; POEMS; The One Thousand Days; Soul Keeping Company; Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements

Am MoorCarrowmore; POETIC STATEMENT; Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties; "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED"; The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido; JORIE GRAHAM; POEMS; Exit Wound; Covenant; Prayer; Gulls; The Complex Mechanism of the Break; In/Silence; Philosopher's Stone; POETIC STATEMENT; At the Border; JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON; Singing to Use the Waiting; BARBARA GUEST; POEMS; Valorous Vine; If So, Tell Me; Confession of My Images; Defensive Rapture; An Emphasis Falls on Reality; The Farewell Stairway; Words; POETIC STATEMENT; The Forces of the Imagination

IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDSThe Work of Barbara Guest; LYN HEJINIAN; POEMS; From Writing Is an Aid to Memory; From Happily; POETIC STATEMENT; Some Notes toward a Poetics; Parting with Description; BRENDA HILLMAN; POEMS; A Geology; POETIC STATEMENT; Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California Geological Syntax; "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE"; Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of Brenda Hillman; SUSAN HOWE; POEMS; From Chair; POETIC STATEMENT; There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover; ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE

Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan HoweANN LAUTERBACH; POEMS; In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse); STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson); POETIC STATEMENT; As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment; "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments; HARRYETTE MULLEN; POEMS; Wino Rhino; Fancy Cortex; Music for Homemade Instruments; The Anthropic Principle; Sleeping with the Dictionary; POETIC STATEMENT; Imagining the Unimagined Reader; "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY"; Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia,"; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780819574442

0819574449