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Male poets and the agon of the mother : contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry
- Title
- Male poets and the agon of the mother : contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry / Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ; foreword by Jo Gill.
- Author
- Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gill, Jo, 1965-
- Description
- xv, 228 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Men and literature
- American poetry
- Confession in literature
- Lyriker
- Weiblichkeit > Motiv
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Mothers and sons in literature
- 1900-1999
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- United States
- History
- Men and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Lyrik
- Mutterschaft > Motiv
- Motherhood in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10573
- ISBN
- 9781611179682
- 1611179688
- LCCN
- 2018049273
- OCLC
- 1065979399
- Author
- Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker, author.
- Title
- Male poets and the agon of the mother : contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry / Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ; foreword by Jo Gill.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Gill, Jo, 1965- writer of foreword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker. Male poets and the agon of the mother. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019] 9781611179699 (DLC) 2018059195
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10573