Anne Bradstreet now : modern poets respond / edited by Abram Van Engen, Mary Eyring

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Engen, Abram C., 1981- editor.

Eyring, Mary Kathleen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672--Criticism and interpretation.

Bradstreet, Anne.

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2026

Summary:

In 1650, the puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first person from British North America to publish a book of poems. 'The Tenth Muse' made her famous, and for almost four centuries, Bradstreet has been canonized, anthologized, studied, and taught. She's remarkable in many ways, partly for her early forms of feminism; partly for her modes of spiritual devotion; partly for the power embedded in her elegies, her love lyrics, her meditations, and her autobiography. This book re-envisions Anne Bradstreet through the powerful writings of some of the most prominent poets in America today. This collection presents the voices of contemporary writers, writers who have won the biggest prizes possible in American letters, to reflect in poetry and prose on Bradstreet's influence, legacy, and lasting significance

Contents:

Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland

Six meditations on a poem / David Baker

The flesh and the spirit / Mary Jo Bang

Blessed bee, deerest dear / Dan Beachy-Quick

Negative space in Anne Bradstreet / Kimberly L. Becker

What I meant to say was / Sophie Cabot Black

{Dis} temper / Daniel Borzutzky

Arbella / Eduardo C. Corral

“Too many my diseases to recite”: Anne Bradstreet’s illness narratives / Joanne Diaz

Anne Bradstreet and the privately radical life of the mind / Kathy Fagan

Sor Juana’s sonnet to Anne Bradstreet: a conceit / Rigoberto González

Anne Bradstreet’s four quartets / Linda Gregerson

Meditations: a remix / Niki Herd

Kind reader / Kimberly Johnson

Centos (for Anne Bradstreet) / John Keene

Responsive odes to Anne and her microcosmos / Karen An-hwei Lee

To Anne Bradstreet / Shane McCrae

Wrack / Anne Myles

Fair flower that for a space was lent / Marilyn Nelson

But yet [her] body is [the] book: Haudenosaunee women as text / James Thomas Stevens

Four quaterns for Anne Bradstreet / Cindy Veach

Notes on my father’s death / G. C. Waldrep

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed July 10, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Anne Bradstreet now

ISBN:

9780197811191

0197811191

9780197811184

0197811183

9780197811177

0197811175

OCLC:

1587431033

Publisher Number:

CIPO000385244

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license