description: "Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectually exhilarating. This collection not only sets a new standard for feminist theorizing about poetic genres, it performs the pleasures of feminist reading in all their diversity."--Mary Loeffelholz, author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory Dwelling in Possibility cuts across conventional boundaries between critical and creative writing by featuring the work of both women poets and feminist critics as they explore and exemplify the relationship between gender and poetic genres. The contributors suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time. Contributors: T BEGLEY, Brewster, MA EAVAN BOLAND, Stanford University ANGELA BOURKE, University College Dublin OLGA BROUMAS, Brewster, MA ANNE CARSON, McGill University RITA DOVE, University of Virginia RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS, Temple University SUSAN STANFORD FRIEDMAN, University of Wisconsin, Madison KATHRYN GUTZWILLER, University of Cincinnati MARILYN HACKER, New York, NY JOY HARJO, Albuquerque, NM DIANA HENDERSON, Massachusetts Institute of Techology BELL HOOKS, City College of New York/CUNY SUSAN HOWE, State University of New York, Buffalo ROMANA HUK, University of New Hampshire AKASHA HULL, Santa Cruz, CA VIRGINIA JACKSON, Rutgers University JAYNE ELIZABETH LEWIS, University of California, Los Angeles ALICIA OSTRIKER, Rutgers University M. NOURBESE PHILIP, Toronto, Ontario YOPIE PRINS, University of Michigan MAEERA SHREIBER, University of Southern California KAREN SWANN, Williams College ELEANOR WILNER, Philadelphia, PA
language: English
title: Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry
titlecomplete: Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry
genres: Essays, Poetry
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Pergamon