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American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language
Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to be experimental? How can lyric forms be authentic? This volume builds on the energetic tensions inherent in these questions, focusing on ten major American women poets whose collective work shows an incredible rang...more
Paperback, 439 pages
Published
August 13th 2002
by Wesleyan University Press
(first published July 28th 2002)
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I don't know why she's not mentioned in the goodreads description but Juliana Spahr is one of the editors of this anthology (the other being Rankine), and Spahr composed the Introduction.
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I thought I would really like the set-up of this book -- poems, poetic statement, and critical essay for each poet -- but in the end, I could have done without the essays, which on the whole were dry and contributed little to my appreciation of the work.
The set-up of this book is particularly appealing: poetic statement, a chunk of poems, a scholarly essay (regarding the poet, but not by the poet). Like one of those food trays, with a space set out for each essential.
Some wonderful poets you find in other anthologies. Bought this when I was working for the Naropa Summer Writing Program, and it features many of the writers they often bring in.
I just read the poetry and some of the statements. I'm used to reading narrative poetry, so re-finding a way to read these poets was fun and refreshing.
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