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Male poets and the agon of the mother : contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry /
"When looking back today on the American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, we see that for many of the major--and still dominant--poets of the period, the confessional mode was a vital force. It made--and, of course, was shaped by--Robert Lowell, whose 1959 Life Studies prompt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "At the center of how I think my life": my mother
- "And, moreover / my mother says": Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and confessional maternity
- "Freaked in the moon brain": Allen Ginsberg and Frank Bidart: confessing crazy mothers
- Postconfessional stories: C. K. Williams and Robert Hass on maternal breasts and mouths
- "Yellow flowers . . . with mouths like where / babies come from": Yusef Komunyakaa's innuendos, ideas, and insinuations about motherhood
- "And all this time I've stayed awake with you": romanticism in Stanley Plumly's maternal metaphor
- "I am made by her, and undone": an Anglo-American coda; or, Thom Gunn undone
- Conclusion: "You still haven't finished with your mother": men constructing a poetics of motherhood.