| Description |
xxvi, 278 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Motherhood and poetics / Maxine Kumin -- When as a girl on the plains of Minnesota / Maureen Owen -- World is not precisely round : piecing commotion (on writing and motherhood) / Erica Hunt -- Not a perfect mother / Stephanie Brown -- My motherhood / Camille Roy -- Erasing names, multiplying alliances / Claudia Keelan -- Writing Natural Birth / Toi Derricotte -- Emergence / Carolyn Forche -- Other Syliva Plath / Eavan Boland -- Pulse and impulse : the zuihitsu / Kimiko Hahn -- And the motherhood of poetics / Susan Griffin -- Elaborations of between : the interpolation of a child into a writer's poetics / Mary Margaret Sloan -- Writing being / Laura Moriarty -- Radiance in the story lattice / Patricia Dienstfrey -- Parallel play / Carla Harryman -- Doublings / Alice Notley -- To book as to foal. To son / Kathleen Fraser -- Notes on "Listen" / Alicia Ostriker -- Beyond impatience : on motherhood and poetry / Pam Rehm -- Allowance : a poetics of motherhood / Frances N. Phillips -- One absolutely beautiful thing : my relationship to poetry and motherhood through the voices of women poets / Jill Bialosky. |
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Heart murmur / Carol Muske-Dukes -- In a ring of cows is the signal given : ruminations on mothering and writing / C.D. Wright -- Language and the gaze at the other-- a poetics of birth / Gillian Conoley -- Eighty-five notes / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- Resuscitations / Susan Gevirtz -- Untitled (M) / Norma Cole -- Poetma / Dale Going -- First things first : notes toward a discovery of being a mother being a writer / Barbara Einzig -- Split, spark, and space : a poetics of shared custody / Brenda Hillman -- Gaps, overflow, and linkage : a synesthesiac look at motherhood and writing / Elizabeth Robinson -- Pinocchian ideal / Fanny Howe. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Women and literature.
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| Added Author |
Dienstfrey, Patricia.
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Hillman, Brenda.
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| ISBN |
0819566446 (pbk.) |
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9780819566447 (pbk.) |
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0819566438 (cloth) |
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9780819566430 (cloth) |
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