Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Reading Women Writing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801431999 ISBN 13: 9780801431999

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 questions about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time.

About this title

About the Author:

Yopie Prins is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Maeera Shreiber is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Review:

"The powerful insight of this 370-page collection of women's writing is that the participation of women poets in the public sphere cannot be measured adequately unless feminist genre theory learns how to 'open the borders'―to recognize how generic hybridity has helped to define cultural and political movements and to build connections between academics and other communities, as the book itself exemplifies."

(Contemporary Literature)

"A lovely book.... This anthology is immensely erudite, detailed, precise, and thoughtful.... Every essay in this collection is a solid meal, nothing is skippable or skimmable."

(Meryl Altman The Women's Review of Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801431999
• ISBN 13: 9780801431999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Prins Yopie, Shreiber Maeera