88 records matched your query
03104cam a22003974a 4500 001 FAB87764665111DFAAA9418CC41A358D 003 SILO 005 20100523050007 008 090206s2009 ohua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2009002739 020 $a 0814211011 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780814211014 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)302414526 040 $a OU/DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d CDX $d C#P $d BWX $d YDXCP $d VVC $d UBY $d NSB $d ION $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS151 $b .I25 2009 082 00 $a 811/.54099287 $2 22 100 1 $a Hedley, Jane. 245 1 $a I made you to find me : $b the coming of age of the woman poet and the politics of poetic address / $c Jane Hedley. 260 $a Columbus : $b The Ohio State University Press, $c c2009. 300 $a xii, 199 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index. 505 0 $a Anne Sexton and the gender of poethood -- Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics -- Sylvia Plath's ekphrastic impulse -- Race and rhetoric in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. 520 $a When Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Gwendolyn Brooks began to write poetry during the 1940s and 1950s, each had to wonder whether she could be taken seriously as a poet while speaking in a woman's voice. This book title, the last line of one of Sexton's early poems, calls attention to how resourcefully the "I-You" relation had to be staged in order for this question to have an affirmative answer. Whereas Rich tried at first to speak to her own historical moment in the register of universality, Plath openly aspired to be "the Poetess of America." For Brooks, womanhood and "blackness" were inextricable markers of poetic identity. The author's approach engages biographical, formal, and rhetorical analysis as means to explore each poet's stated intentions, political stakes, and rhetorical strategies within their own historical context. Sexton's aggressively social persona called attention to the power dynamics of intimate relationships; Plath's poems lifted these relationships onto a different plane of reality, where their tragic potential could be more readily engaged. Rich's poems bear witness to the enormous difficulty, notwithstanding the crucial importance, of reciprocity, of making "you" to find "we." For Brooks, the crucial question has been whether she could presuppose an "American" audience without compromising her allegiance to "blackness." 650 0 $a Women poets, American $y 20th century. 650 0 $a American poetry $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180105044606.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825032601.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100523050810.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FAB87764665111DFAAA9418CC41A358D 994 $a 02 $b IONInitiate Another SILO Locator Search