Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876851791
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Author: Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253112583
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Elizabeth A. I. Powell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574232561
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

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The liberating power of anger has rarely felt so good and healing as in this complete collection of a landmark in feminist poetry."She digs her teeth into the slaveries of woman, she cries them aloud with such fulminating energy that the chains begin to melt of themselves. Reaching into the hive of her angers, she plucks out images of fear and delight that are transparent yet loaded with the darknesses of life. Diane Wakoski is an important and moving poet."--The New York TimesIn 1971, Diane Wakoski published The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems to tremendous acclaim. In the decades that followed, she wrote additional "betrayal" poems, which are now collected here in one volume for the first time. Relevant, moving--at times shocking--it is Wakoski's honesty and bravery as an artist that continues to astonish, delight, inspire, and liberate readers.Wakoski responds to betrayal in a variety of ways including fantasies such as drilling bullet holes into the bodies of unfaithful lovers. But even her anger can be winking, as in the book's sly dedication to "all those men who betrayed me at one time or another, in hopes they will fall off their motorcycles and break their necks." There is joy here because it is self-knowledge that the writer seeks, as in the collection's title poem: So some white wolves and I will sing on your grave, old man and dance for the joy of your death. "Is this an angry statement?" "No, it is a statement of joy." "Will the sun shine again?" "Yes, yes, yes," because I'm going to dance dance danceDiane Wakoski's art as a confessional, storytelling poet has rarely been equaled. Her revelations become shared emotional truth with readers. The collection's new introduction by poet and Green Mountains Review editor Elizabeth A. I. Powell gives context to the long wake of Wakoski's inspiring influence on generations of readers. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is for anyone who ever lost a love and wishes to embrace the freedom, rather than the pain, it can bring.

Author: Lloyd M. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Author: Jim
Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
ISBN: 0985981865
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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A monumental gathering of writings by over 60 authors (from Emerson to Rudolfo Anaya) that traces Whitman's continuing influence on world literature. Revised second edition.

Author: GORDON
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489966587
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876859032
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Great expectations developed from Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") are inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving, as well as revealing, of Ms. Wakoski's books.

Author: Estella Lauter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253115027
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"... impressive work of scholarship..." -- Exceptional Human Experience

Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231441
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life "All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."

Author: Daniel G. Marowski
Publisher: Contemporary Literary Criticis
ISBN: 9780810344198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.