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Title:

American women poets / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Edition:

New ed.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

vii, 245 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.

Contents:

Gwendolyn Brooks : an essential sanity / Henry Taylor -- "Never having had you, I cannot let you go" : Sharon Olds's poems of a father-daughter relationship / Brian Dillon -- Rita Dove : identity markers / Helen Vendler -- New dreaming : Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault -- Louise Gl©ơck's nine lives / James Longenbach -- And this poem recognizes that : embracing contrarieties in the poetry of Nikki Giovanni / Virginia Fowler -- Maya Angelou on the inaugural stage / Zofia Burr -- Black names in white space : Lucille Clifton's south / Hilary Holladay -- Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and the allure of incest / Gale Swiontkowski -- Drifting in the weeds of heaven : Mary Oliver and the poetics of the immeasurable / Rose Lucas -- Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics / Jane Hedley.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

ISBN:

1604139919
9781604139914

OCLC:

(OCoLC)733755500

LCCN:

2011025761

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)