Title: Democracy in contemporary U.S. women's poetry /
Authors: Marsh, Nicky.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American poetry Women authors History and criticism; American poetry History and criticism; POETRY American General.; Literary studies: poetry & poets The Americas.; Regional studies The Americas.; Cultural studies The Americas.; Literature.; American poetry; American poetry Women authors; Frauenlyrik.; Demokratie.
Abstract: "This book supplements existing narratives of feminist poetry by examining how contemporary women poets have interrogated what it means to be public. It draws on recent debates in democratic theory and third-wave feminism to explore the work of women poets as varied as Susan Howe, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Harryette Mullen, and Leslie Scalapino. It examines how these poets offer a critique of the normative conventions of U.S. democracy, particularly its assumptions about public and private, and use their writing, and its cultural structures, to model alternatives to them."--Jacket.