Blood Pressure: Poems

by Sandra M. Gilbert

A selection of poems that focus on the self, Blood Pressure shares Gilbert's concern with the mysteries surrounding the blood and family lineage.

Genres: Poetry, Fairy Tales

114 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Sandra M. Gilbert was an American literary critic and poet who published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She was best known for her collaborative critical work with Susan Gubar, with whom she co-authored, among other works, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). Madwoman in the Attic is widely recognized as a text central to second-wave feminism. She was Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis.
Gilbert lived in Berkeley, California, and lived, until 2008, in Paris, France. Her husband, Elliot L. Gilbert, was chair of the Department of English at University of California, Davis, until his death in 1991. She also had a long-term relationship with David Gale, mathematician at University of California, Berkeley, until his death in 2008.

Reviews

[Rhiley Jade · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved a lot of single stanzas but only loved 3 poems as a whole.

[lucky lex · Rating 3 out of 5]

this is so lana del rey coded

[Fiirenix_ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars I really enjoyed it!

[Harmony · Rating 4 out of 5]

I stumbled on this little book of poetry in a used bookstore years and years ago and something about the painful obsessive quality in the love poems caused me to buy it. Funny, because I don't usually read poetry.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 G466p 1988