South America Mi Hija

South America Mi Hija PDF Author: Sharon Doubiago
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980665
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, "Are there any good men?" South American Mi Hija is Sharon Doubiago's reply.Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes.

South America Mi Hija

South America Mi Hija PDF Author: Sharon Doubiago
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980665
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, "Are there any good men?" South American Mi Hija is Sharon Doubiago's reply.Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes.

Liquid Paper

Liquid Paper PDF Author: Peter Meinke
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979845
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Book Description
Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in "the new formalism." His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.

The Makings of Happiness

The Makings of Happiness PDF Author: Ronald Wallace
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978946
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.

M-80

M-80 PDF Author: Jim Daniels
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991411
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
In M-80, his third book of poems, Jim Daniels explores the sharp edges of urban life. His characters struggle for survival in the face of rising urban violence, racial tension, and a crumbling economy. The collection is named for one of the most dangerous fireworks found on city streets – an apt metaphor for an urban world where the fuse is always lit.

Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982

Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982 PDF Author: Bernard Schweizer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351126016
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and historical visions. Bringing the female epic out of the shadows, the contributors rethink generic boundaries to illuminate this heretofore hidden literary practice. The essays range from Mary Tighe to Rebecca West from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Gwendolyn Brooks, and from Frances Burney to Virginia Woolf. Bernard Schweizer's introduction, titled 'Muses with Pens,' connects the trajectory of ideas and influences in the individual essays to demonstrate how each participates in reclaiming for women writers a place in the development of a female epic tradition. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on issues related to genre, canon formation, and the evolution of female literary authority.

Florilegia

Florilegia PDF Author: Debi Berrow
Publisher: CALYX Books
ISBN: 9780934971065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
A selection of some of the finest literary and artistic work published by women. Among the ninety-six contributors are: Paula Gunn Allen, Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Olga Broumas, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kingsolver, and Margaret Randall. "CALYX collects its finest writing from the last decade."- USA Today

Forms of Expansion

Forms of Expansion PDF Author: Lynn Keller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226429700
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
Expanding the boundaries of both genre and gender, contemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles that repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and revitalize poetry itself. In the first book devoted to long poems by women, Lynn Keller explores this rich and evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of the diverse traditions and feminist concerns addressed by poets ranging from Rita Dove and Sharon Doubiago to Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, and Susan Howe. Arguing that women poets no longer feel intimidated by the traditional associations of long poems with the heroic, public realm or with great artistic ambition, Keller shows how the long poem's openness to sociological, anthropological, and historical material makes it an ideal mode for exploring women's roles in history and culture. In addition, the varied forms of long poems—from sprawling free verse epics to regular sonnet sequences to highly disjunctive experimental collages—make this hybrid genre easily adaptable to diverse visions of feminism and of contemporary poetics.

Timber and Prayer

Timber and Prayer PDF Author: Afaa Michael Weaver
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978962
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Book Description
"Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his tonal range—from unabashed passion to the subtlest velleity—is impressive indeed. This is a singular talent."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Little Girls In Church

Little Girls In Church PDF Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979012
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
Although Kathleen Norris's best-selling Dakota: A Spiritual Geography has brought her to the attention of many thousands of readers, she is first and last a poet. Like Robert Frost, another poet identified with a particular landscape, she can reveal the miraculous in the ordinary, and she writes with clarity, humor, and deep sympathy for her subjects.

Mystery Train

Mystery Train PDF Author: David Wojahn
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979322
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Book Description
David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.