Title: Where we stand : women poets on literary tradition /
Authors: Bryan, Sharon.; Bryan, Sharon,
Publisher: W.W. Norton,
Year: 1993
Subjects: American poetry Women authors History and criticism Theory, etc.; American poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.; Women and literature United States History; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Abstract: Sharon Bryan, poet and editor of River City, wrote to almost eighty women poets asking them how they felt about their particular relationship to literary tradition in her quest to understand and sort out her own confusions on the topic of gender and poetry. This volume of twenty-two essays by women poets is the fruit of that venture. Among topics considered are the childhood experiences that shaped these authors both as writers and as women, to the thoughts on the poets.
Contents: Subterranean maps : a poet's cartography / Wendy Battin -- Outside history / Eavan Boland -- Lasting the night / Amy Clampitt -- Reclaiming the oh / Martha Collins -- Figures in the looking-glass : tradition, gender bias, and the talented woman / Madeline DeFrees -- The tradition of marginality / Kathleen Fraser -- The new new poetry handbook / Debora Greger -- Writing with the sun / Joy Harjo -- The automatic woman / Gwen Head -- Dark turtles and bright turtles / Brenda Hillman -- Robert Jimmy Allen / Judith Kitchen -- Breaking the mold / Maxine Kumin -- Mosaic law : the bits and pieces from which one woman's poems are made / Cynthia Macdonald -- On reclaiming "the universal" / Suzanne Matson -- If we look for them by moonlight / Collen J. McElroy -- Parentage and good luck / Lisel Mueller -- Revising the future / Carol Muske -- The road of excess : my William Blake / Alicia Ostriker.