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Women poets of the Americas : toward a pan-American gathering / edited by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan and Cordelia Chávez Candelaria.

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Book
Publication Info.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1999]
Publication Info.
©1999

Details

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.
America -- Literatures -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Women and literature -- America -- Congresses.
Literature and society -- America -- Congresses.
Added Author
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught, 1952-
Candelaria, Cordelia.
ISBN
0268019568 cloth alkaline paper
026801955X paperback alkaline paper