I made you to find me : the coming of age of the woman poet and the politics of poetic address /
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 at...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press
©2009.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1725r5h |
Table of Contents:
- Anne Sexton and the gender of poethood
- Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics
- Sylvia Plath's ekphrastic impulse
- Race and rhetoric in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks.