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Poetry and Poetry Criticism

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Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

Everywoman Her Own Theology

On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker

By Martha Nell Smith & Julie R. Enszer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Under Discussion

Much admired by readers for decades, Alicia Ostriker is celebrated by her peers in fresh and insightful essays

Coming After

Essays on Poetry

By Alice Notley
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience

Power and Possibility

Essays, Reviews, and Interviews

By Elizabeth Alexander
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language

By Laura (Riding) Jackson
Edited by John Nolan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Poets on Poetry

Brings together four decades of largely unpublished work by Jackson, exploring the rationale for her renunciation of poetry in 1941 after two decades as a poet

Cultures of Modernism

Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler

By Cristanne Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Examines the influences of location on the literary achievements of three modernist women writers

The Body of Poetry

Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self

By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays, reviews, and memoir by one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation

Nimble Believing

Dickinson and the Unknown

By James McIntosh
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Religion

A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily Dickinson's poetry

Abandoned Women

Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer

By Suzanne C. Hagedorn
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Sheds light on the complex web of allusions that link medieval authors to their literary predecessors

Soul Barnacles

Ten More Years with Ray

By Gallagher
Edited by Greg Simon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Biography, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Documents that chronicle the story of a literary partnership and marriage that did not end with death

Banished Immortal

Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet

By Paul Stanley Ropp
Subjects: Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A lyrical account of a decade-long search for the truth about Shuangqing, China's peasant woman poet

The Instant of Knowing

Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose

By Josephine Jacobsen
Edited by Elizabeth Spires
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A rich assortment of the writings of rediscovered octogenarian poet Josephine Jacobsen

On Gwendolyn Brooks

Reliant Contemplation

Edited by Stephen Caldwell Wright
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Under Discussion

A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize

Becoming a Poet

Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell

By David Kalstone
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Literature, Modern Literature

A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships

Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams

By Rachel Hadas
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, European Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet

Dancing at the Devil's Party

Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic

By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present

Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition

By Karen L. Kilcup
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Uncovers heretofore overlooked influences and connections in the evolution of Frost's poetry

Truthtellers of the Times

Interviews with Contemporary Women Poets

Edited by Janet Palmer Mullaney
Subjects: Gender Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Frank and lively conversations with fifteen fascinating contemporary poets

Made with Words

By May Swenson
Edited by Gardner McFall
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Recovers poet May Swenson's fiction, criticism, and drama--and her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop

Fashioning the Female Subject

The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore, and Rich

By Sabine Sielke
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Exploring the interrelatedness of the poetry of three American women writers

Women and Poetry

Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self

By Carol Muske
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Assesses the state of women's poetry today while celebrating its intrinsic diversity

Guns and Boyhood in America

A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s

By Jonathan Holden
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

America the beautiful: baseball, summer camp, and homophobia.

Engendering Inspiration

Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D.

By Helen Sword
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Investigates the development of a gendered poetics of inspiration in the modernist period

Emily Dickinson's Open Folios

Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing

By Marta L. Werner
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Undertakes a radically new model of critical editing

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