| Description |
xvii, 287 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Papers presented at a conference held Dec. 1995, Cancún, Mexico. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unappeasable and arrogant: women and the faces of death / María dolores Bolívar -- Rites/Rights of canonization: Andre Lorde as icon / Anna Wilson -- "The muse as fluffball": Margaret Atwood and the poetry of the intelligent woman / Martine Watson Brownley -- Infectious ecstasy: toward a poetics of performative transformation / Cynthia Hogue -- Siting the poet: Rita Dove's refiguring of traditions / Susan R. Van Dyne -- Elizabeth Bishop: war, love, race, and class / Margaret Dickie -- Rethinking the "eyes" of Chicana Poetry, or, reading the multiple centers of Chicana poetics / Cordelia Chávez Candelaria -- Formalism, feminism, and genre slipping in the poetic writings of Leslie Scalapino / Laura Hinton -- Lyn Hejinian and the possibilities of postmodernism in poetry / Charles Altieri -- Reimagining "Empire's westward course": Amy Clampitt's A Silence Opens / Celeste Goodridge -- Bishop in Brazil: writing the un-renamable / Susan McCabe -- Family values and the Jewishness of Linda Pastan's poetic vision / Sanford Pinsker -- Castings for a (new) new world: the poetry of Joy Harjo / Janet McAdams -- Mixing it up in M. Nourbese Philip's poetic recipes / Cristanne Miller --Kozmic reappraisals: revising California insularity / Maria Damon. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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America -- Literatures -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Women and literature -- America -- Congresses.
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Literature and society -- America -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught, 1952-
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Candelaria, Cordelia.
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| ISBN |
0268019568 cloth alkaline paper |
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026801955X paperback alkaline paper |
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