TY  - GEN
T1  - I made you to find me : the coming of age of the woman poet and the politics of poetic address
A1  - Hedley, Jane
LA  - English
PP  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn747305649
AB  - When Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Gwendolyn Brooks began to write poetry during the 1940s and 1950s, each had to wonder whether she could be taken seriously as a poet while speaking in a woman's voice. This book title, the last line of one of Sexton's early poems, calls attention to how resourcefully the "I-You" relation had to be staged in order for this question to have an affirmative answer. Whereas Rich tried at first to speak to her own historical moment in the register of universality, Plath openly aspired to be "the Poetess of America." For Brooks, womanhood and "blackness" were inextricable markers of poetic identity. The author's approach engages biographical, formal, and rhetorical analysis as means to explore each poet's stated intentions, political stakes, and rhetorical strategies within their own historical context. Sexton's aggressively social persona called attention to the power dynamics of intimate relationships; Plath's poems lifted these relationships onto a different plane of reality, where their tragic potential could be more readily engaged. Rich's poems bear witness to the enormous difficulty, notwithstanding the crucial importance, of reciprocity, of making "you" to find "we." For Brooks, the crucial question has been whether she could presuppose an "American" audience without compromising her allegiance to "blackness."
OP  - 199
CN  - PS151 .I25 2009
SN  - 9780814271469
SN  - 0814271464
SN  - 9780814211014
SN  - 0814211011
KW  - Women poets, American : 20th century.
KW  - American poetry : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - American poetry : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American literature : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Women and literature : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Écrits de femmes américains : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Poétesses américaines : 20e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - American literature : Women authors
KW  - American poetry
KW  - American poetry : Women authors
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women poets, American
KW  - United States
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Schriftstellerin
KW  - USA
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Geschichte 1945-2004.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -