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By herself : women reclaim poetry

Author: Molly McQuade
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Have women moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in poetry and its criticism? In By Herself, women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are telling: a collection of essays that are original, challenging, playful, ruthlessly individualistic, and inviting. Many of the essays are new; others are "classics" of poetry criticism. They cover a dazzling range  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
By herself.
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2000
(OCoLC)647329757
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Molly McQuade
ISBN: 1555972977 9781555972974
OCLC Number: 43755369
Description: 425 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Molly McQuade --
"It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind" / Elizabeth Macklin --
Vesuvius at home : the power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich --
The difficult miracle of Black poetry in America, or, Something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan --
Being a dragon : on Marianne Moore / Cynthia Zarin --
My Plath problem / April Bernard --
"Either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation" / Rita Dove --
Edwin Muir and the primal world / Mary Kinzie --
A meditation on metaphor / Alicia Ostriker --
Some notes on silence / Jorie Graham --
A cadenced privacy / Brenda Hillman --
Use this word in a sentence : experimental / Ann Lauterbach --
Myself a kangaroo among beauties / Lucie Brock-broido --
A genuine article / Heather McHugh --
Confessions of a postmodern poetess / Annie Finch --
Playing the changes / Eleanor Wilner --
La Faustienne / Lyn Hejinian --
Xio's soakbook : criticism takes a bath / S.X. Rosenstock --
Against decoration / Mary Karr --
Poetry, mattering? / Susan Wheeler --
Letter to a young woman poet / Eavan Boland --
A student's memoir of Muriel Rukeyser / Sharon Olds --
Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde --
Meditations on "Mecca" : Gwendolyn Brooks and the responsibilities of the Black poet / Elizabeth Alexander --
69 hidebound opinions, propositions, and several asides from a manila folder concerning the stuff of poetry / C.D. Wright --
Short survey of scruples / Molly McQuade --
On being unable to read / Valerie Cornell.
Responsibility: edited by Molly McQuade.
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Have women moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in poetry and its criticism? In By Herself, women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are telling: a collection of essays that are original, challenging, playful, ruthlessly individualistic, and inviting. Many of the essays are new; others are "classics" of poetry criticism. They cover a dazzling range of territory, from discussion of craft to reappraisals of both female and male poets to enlightened backtalk. From Jorie Graham to Eavan Boland, from Adrienne Rich to Rita Dove, the contributors express contemporary poetry's diversity of views and styles.

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