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03781aam a2200517 i 4500 001 C1DE912CB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 181105t20192019scu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018049273 020 $a 1611179688 020 $a 9781611179682 035 $a (OCoLC)1065979399 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCF $d DLC $d OCLCO $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS325 $b .S25 2019 082 00 $a 811/.54099286 100 1 $a Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker $e author. 245 10 $a Male poets and the agon of the mother : $b contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry / $c Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ; foreword by Jo Gill. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 228 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: "At the center of how I think my life": my mother -- "And, moreover / my mother says": Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and confessional maternity -- "Freaked in the moon brain": Allen Ginsberg and Frank Bidart: confessing crazy mothers -- Postconfessional stories: C.K. Williams and Robert Hass on maternal breasts and mouths -- "Yellow flowers ... with mouths like where / babies come from": Yusef Komunyakaa's innuendos, ideas, and insinuations about motherhood -- "And all this time I've stayed awake with you": romanticism in Stanley Plumly's maternal metaphor -- "I am made by her, and undone": an Anglo-American coda; or, Thom Gunn undone -- Conclusion: "You still haven't finished with your mother": men constructing a poetics of motherhood. 520 $a "When looking back today on the American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, we see that for many of the major--and still dominant--poets of the period, the confessional mode was a vital force. It made--and, of course, was shaped by--Robert Lowell, whose 1959 Life Studies prompted the delineation of the style. It galvanized Sylvia Plath, sustained Anne Sexton, and provided a useful countertradition even for those who never identified themselves as "confessional" (most obviously Elizabeth Bishop). It also proved fundamental to the careers of many poets of the next generation (including Thom Gunn and Sharon Olds)--even as such successors to the original "school" spent much of their time resisting, or at least rethinking, the terms of the debate"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons in literature. 650 0 $a Motherhood in literature. 650 0 $a Confession in literature. 650 0 $a Men and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a American poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 650 7 $a Confession in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00874672 650 7 $a Men and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01742850 650 7 $a Motherhood in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026934 650 7 $a Mothers and sons in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027010 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Gill, Jo, $d 1965- $e writer of foreword. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker. $t Male poets and the agon of the mother. $d Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019] $z 9781611179699 $w (DLC) 2018059195 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214023305.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806080749.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1DE912CB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search