The once and future muse : the poetry and poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat /

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The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obsc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kang, Nancy, 1977- (Author), Torres-Saillant, Silvio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Series:Latino and Latin American profiles.
Subjects:
Espaillat, Rhina P. > (Rhina Polonia), > 1932- > Criticism and interpretation.
Espaillat, Rhina P. > (Rhina Polonia), > 1932-
1900-1999
Women poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Bilingual authors > United States > 20th century > Biography.
Poétesses américaines > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Poètes américains > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Écrivains bilingues > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Biographies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > General.
Bilingual authors.
Poets, American.
Women poets, American.
United States.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: A Feeling, A Beat, and An Image; Two: Genealogies of Sensibility; Three: Locations of Identity: Craft, Ethnicity, and Americanness; Four: Multicultural Imperatives, Difference, and American Promise; Five: Quiet Revolution: Domesticity and Creation Stories; Six: The Spirit in the Wound: Decaying Bodies and Poetic Thanatopsis; Seven: Toward a Critical Consensus; Eight: Ever-Widening Circles: A Poetics of Inclusion; Works Cited; Index.

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