TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hedley,Jane
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - I Made You to Find Me : : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / 
SN  - 9780814271469
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Schriftstellerin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Women poets, American
KW  - fast
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Women authors
KW  - American literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Poetesses americaines
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Poesie americaine
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Écrits de femmes americains
KW  - Femmes et litterature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Englisch
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Anne Sexton and the gender of poethood --; Adrienne Rich's anti-confessional poetics --; Sylvia Plath's ekphrastic impulse --; Race and rhetoric in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks; Open Access
N2  - When Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Gwendolyn Brooks began to write poetry during the 1940s and 1950s, each had to wonder whether she could be taken seriously as a poet while speaking in a woman's voice. This book title, the last line of one of Sexton's early poems, calls attention to how resourcefully the "I-You" relation had to be staged in order for this question to have an affirmative answer. Whereas Rich tried at first to speak to her own historical moment in the register of universality, Plath openly aspired to be "the Poetess of America." For Brooks, womanhood and "blackness" were inextricable markers of poetic identity. The author's approach engages biographical, formal, and rhetorical analysis as means to explore each poet's stated intentions, political stakes, and rhetorical strategies within their own historical context. Sexton's aggressively social persona called attention to the power dynamics of intimate relationships; Plath's poems lifted these relationships onto a different plane of reality, where their tragic potential could be more readily engaged. Rich's poems bear witness to the enormous difficulty, notwithstanding the crucial importance, of reciprocity, of making "you" to find "we." For Brooks, the crucial question has been whether she could presuppose an "American" audience without compromising her allegiance to "blackness."
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27777/
ER  -