Dwelling in possibility
Subtitle: women poets and critics on poetry
By: edited by Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber.
Contributors: Prins, Yopie.; Shreiber, Maeera, 1956-
Series: Reading women writing
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Feminist literary criticism.; Poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.; Women and literature.; Gender identity in literature.
Description: 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 question about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time.

This imaginatively conceived book covers a range in terms of time, geography, and genre, considering poets from antiquity to the present and drawing on a variety of critical approaches. Of particular note are essays on the transformation of classical lyric through the figure of Sappho, and on the transformative use of biblical material in women's verse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-365) and index.