American women poets
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism; Blooms Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781604139914
Subjects: History; Women authors; Women and literature; American poetry; History and criticism; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gwendolyn Brooks : an essential sanity / Henry Taylor; title: "Never having had you, I cannot let you go" : Sharon Olds's poems of a father-daughter relationship / Brian Dillon; title: Rita Dove : identity markers / Helen Vendler; title: New dreaming : Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault; title: Louise Glück's nine lives / James Longenbach; title: And this poem recognizes that : embracing contrarieties in the poetry of Nikki Giovanni / Virginia Fowler; title: Maya Angelou on the inaugural stage / Zofia Burr; title: Black names in white space : Lucille Clifton's south / Hilary Holladay; title: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and the allure of incest / Gale Swiontkowski; title: Drifting in the weeds of heaven : Mary Oliver and the poetics of the immeasurable / Rose Lucas; title: Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics / Jane Hedley.