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American women poets /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2011]
Edition:New ed.
Series:Bloom's modern critical views.
Subjects:
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Gwendolyn Brooks : an essential sanity / Henry Taylor
  • "Never having had you, I cannot let you go" : Sharon Olds's poems of a father-daughter relationship / Brian Dillon
  • Rita Dove : identity markers / Helen Vendler
  • New dreaming : Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault
  • Louise Glück's nine lives / James Longenbach
  • And this poem recognizes that : embracing contrarieties in the poetry of Nikki Giovanni / Virginia Fowler
  • Maya Angelou on the inaugural stage / Zofia Burr
  • Black names in white space : Lucille Clifton's south / Hilary Holladay
  • Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and the allure of incest / Gale Swiontkowski
  • Drifting in the weeds of heaven : Mary Oliver and the poetics of the immeasurable / Rose Lucas
  • Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics / Jane Hedley.