Research Catalog

Title

Democracy in contemporary U.S. women's poetry / Nicky Marsh.

Author

Marsh, Nicky.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description

x, 225 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book supplements existing narratives of feminist poetry by examining how contemporary women poets have interrogated what it means to be public. It draws on recent debates in democratic theory and third-wave feminism to explore the work of women poets as varied as Susan Howe, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Harryette Mullen, and Leslie Scalapino. It examines how these poets offer a critique of the normative conventions of U.S. democracy, particularly its assumptions about public and private, and use their writing, and its cultural structures, to model alternatives to them."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

American literature readings in the 21st century

Uniform Title

American literature readings in the 21st century.

Subject

• American poetry > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-215) and index.

Contents

Introduction: becoming publics: democracy and contemporary U.S. women's poetry -- 1. Paper money and tender acts: feminism and democracy -- 2. The poetics of privacy: writing the lyric self -- 3. Against the outside: language poetry as a counter-public -- 4. Go Grrrl: democracy and counterculture -- 5. Romantic materialism and emerging poets.

ISBN

• 9780230600263 (hbk.)
• 0230600263 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocn166625237
• 166625237
• SCSB-5369083

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries