Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self

by Carol Muske-Dukes

Book Overview

The sense of self in poetry written by women is historically elusive, certainly less culturally defined than in poems by men. Yet it has ended up, in the present climate of truth-telling, autobiography, and testimony, that the positioning of the self as autobiographical referent in poetry has become central to our reading of poems by women. In Women and Poetry, poet Carol Muske focuses a critical eye on her writings over the last fifteen years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472066242
• ISBN13: 9780472066247
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"