The voices of the Second Wave of Feminism, both famous and less familiar, weave a fascinating history of what it felt like to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation.
This volume presents cultural readings of the objectivist poets, a group characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological view. The essays analyze and evaluate objectivist politics, and focus on the ethical, spiritual, and religious issues raised by objectivist affiliations with Judaism.
"The Pink Guitar" looks at the depiction of women and the uses to which culture has put the female figure; at the same time it asks how a woman artist can make a place for herself among these gender-intensive representations. Starting with the work of William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, DuPlessis turns to a number of modernist and ...
In her now-classic, "The Pink Guitar", Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays and introduction that constitute "Blue Studios", DuPlessis continues that task, examining the work of ...
Here, Rachel Blau Duplessis has built a work which mimics memory and its losses, and which plays with the textures of memory including its unexpectedness, its flashes and disappearances.
This book brings "Drafts", the long poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, to its mid-point. A polyphonic work, both monumental and provisional, Drafts asks how to represent our sense of direness and ethical crises, the awe, asonishment, skepticism and pleasure: that all this is. This installment of nineteen "Drafts" is dedicated to its own poetic and ...
The Grand Permission is a book of deeply enriching and articulate meditations on motherhood and the composition of poetry by practicing poets. The 32 contributors write with originality and commitment about the startling, intense and dynamic connections between motherhood and creative achievement - connections that shed new light on the nature of ...
Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984), along with his contemporaries Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Rakoski, provide an important bridge between the vanguard modernist American poets and the later works of poets such as Robert Creeley. In work often compounded by the populist urbanity of city lives, the Objectivists explored the ...
"The Pink Guitar" looks at the depiction of women and the uses to which culture has put the female figure; at the same time it asks how a woman artist can make a place for herself among these gender-intensive representations. Starting with the work of William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, DuPlessis turns to a number of modernist and ...
The Grand Permission is a book of deeply enriching and articulate meditations on motherhood and the composition of poetry by practicing poets. The 32 contributors write with originality and commitment about the startling, intense and dynamic connections between motherhood and creative achievement - connections that shed new light on the nature of ...
Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques-exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering surges. This book continues the long poem project that Ron Silliman calls "one of the major poetic achievements of our time."
Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984), along with his contemporaries Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Rakoski, provide an important bridge between the vanguard modernist American poets and the later works of poets such as Robert Creeley. In work often compounded by the populist urbanity of city lives, the Objectivists explored the ...
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