Research Catalog

Title

The grand permission : new writings on poetics and motherhood / edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dienstfrey, Patricia.
• Hillman, Brenda.

Description

xxvi, 278 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
• Motherhood in literature
• Women and literature
• Poetry > Women authors
• Literatur
• Mutterschaft Motiv
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Englisch
• Litteraturvetenskap > författare > Förenta staterna
• Poesi
• Moderskap
• Poesi > kvinnliga författare > Förenta staterna
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Motherhood and poetics / Maxine Kumin -- When as a girl on the plains of Minnesota / Maureen Owen -- World is not precisely round : piecing commotion (on writing and motherhood) / Erica Hunt -- Not a perfect mother / Stephanie Brown -- My motherhood / Camille Roy -- Erasing names, multiplying alliances / Claudia Keelan -- Writing Natural Birth / Toi Derricotte -- Emergence / Carolyn Forché -- Other Syliva Plath / Eavan Boland -- Pulse and impulse : the zuihitsu / Kimiko Hahn -- And the motherhood of poetics / Susan Griffin -- Elaborations of between : the interpolation of a child into a writer's poetics / Mary Margaret Sloan -- Writing being / Laura Moriarty -- Radiance in the story lattice / Patricia Dienstfrey -- Parallel play / Carla Harryman -- Doublings / Alice Notley -- To book as to foal. To son / Kathleen Fraser -- Notes on "Listen" / Alicia Ostriker -- Beyond impatience : on motherhood and poetry / Pam Rehm -- Allowance : a poetics of motherhood / Frances N. Phillips -- One absolutely beautiful thing : my relationship to poetry and motherhood through the voices of women poets / Jill Bialosky.
• Heart murmur / Carol Muske-Dukes -- In a ring of cows is the signal given : ruminations on mothering and writing / C.D. Wright -- Language and the gaze at the other-- a poetics of birth / Gillian Conoley -- Eighty-five notes / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- Resuscitations / Susan Gevirtz -- Untitled (M) / Norma Cole -- Poetma / Dale Going -- First things first : notes toward a discovery of being a mother being a writer / Barbara Einzig -- Split, spark, and space : a poetics of shared custody / Brenda Hillman -- Gaps, overflow, and linkage : a synesthesiac look at motherhood and writing / Elizabeth Robinson -- Pinocchian ideal / Fanny Howe.

ISBN

• 0819566438
• 9780819566430
• 0819566446
• 9780819566447

LCCN

2003545072

OCLC

• ocm52305107
• 52305107
• SCSB-1287638

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library