Emily's Bread: Poems

by Sandra M. Gilbert

Book Overview

What is the daily bread of women? In these splendid poems, Sandra Gilbert imagines spiritual regeneration through the tradition pioneered by the two Emilys--Emily Dickinson and Emily Bront?--who are her emblematic foremothers. At the same time, she sees the perils as well as the possibilities of change. The loved walls might fall, some animal goddess in her skull might destroy what is cherished along with what is oppressive. Tracing the anxieties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393301508
• ISBN13: 9780393301502
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"