Of women, poetry, and power

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"The legacy of Emily Dickinson's life and work have shaped a romantic conception of women's poetry as private, personal, and expressive that has governed the reception of subsequent American women poets." "Of Women, Poetry, and Power demonstrates how the canonization of Dickinson has consolidated limiting assumptions about women's poetry in twentieth-century America and models an alternative reading practice that allows for deeper engagement with the political work of modern poetry.". "Analyzing the reception of poems by Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou, Zofia Burr shows the persistence of these critical outlooks and dispels the belief that we have long since moved beyond such limiting gendered expectations. Turning away from an obsessive concern with a poet's biography, Burr's readings of contemporary women's poetry accentuate its engagement with and provocation of readers through its forms of address. Burr shows how displacing the limits of dominant reception is possible by approaching poetry as communicative utterance, not just as self-expression."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: American poetry,  Authors and readers,  Criticism and interpretation,  History,  History and criticism,  Power (Social sciences) in literature,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature,  Critique et interprétation,  Geschichte 1850-2000,  Frauenlyrik,  Politische Lyrik,  Littérature américaine,  Histoire,  Femmes écrivains,  Histoire et critique,  Écrivains et lecteurs,  Poésie américaine,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Femmes et littérature,  Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886,  Brooks, gwendolyn, 1917-2000,  Angelou, maya, 1928-2014,  American poetry, women authors,  American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century

People: Audre Lorde,  Emily Dickinson (1830-1886),  Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-),  Josephine Miles (1911-),  Maya Angelou

Places: United States