Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry

by Yopie Prins (Editor), Maeera Shreiber (Editor)

Overview

Dwelling in Possibility cuts across conventional boundaries between critical and creative writing by featuring the work of both women poets and feminist critics as they explore and exemplify the relationship between gender and poetic genres. The contributors suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801431999
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	12/18/1997
Series:	Reading Women Writing
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Yopie Prins is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Maeera Shreiber is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

What People are Saying About This

Mary Loeffelholz

Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectually exhilarating. This collection not only sets a new standard for feminist theorizing about poetic genres, it performs the pleasures of feminist reading in all their diversity.

Editorial Reviews

A lovely book.... This anthology is immensely erudite, detailed, precise, and thoughtful.... Every essay in this collection is a solid meal, nothing is skippable or skimmable.

The Women's Review of Books - Meryl Altman

The powerful insight of this 370-page collection of women's writing is that the participation of women poets in the public sphere cannot be measured adequately unless feminist genre theory learns how to 'open the borders'—to recognize how generic hybridity has helped to define cultural and political movements and to build connections between academics and other communities, as the book itself exemplifies.

Contemporary Literature

"Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectually exhilarating. This collection not only sets a new standard for feminist theorizing about poetic genres, it performs the pleasures of feminist reading in all their diversity."

Mary Loeffelholz

[A] big, complicated, lovely book. . . . it is faithful to. . .the idea that women's writing matters. . . .Every essay in this collection is a solid meal, nothing is skippable or skimmable. . .
—Women's Review of Books

Meryl Altman

[A] big, complicated, lovely book. . . . it is faithful to. . .the idea that women's writing matters. . . .Every essay in this collection is a solid meal, nothing is skippable or skimmable. . . -- The Women's Review of Books

Meryl Altman

A lovely book.... This anthology is immensely erudite, detailed, precise, and thoughtful.... Every essay in this collection is a solid meal, nothing is skippable or skimmable.

--Meryl Altman "The Women's Review of Books"

The powerful insight of this 370-page collection of women's writing is that the participation of women poets in the public sphere cannot be measured adequately unless feminist genre theory learns how to 'open the borders'--to recognize how generic hybridity has helped to define cultural and political movements and to build connections between academics and other communities, as the book itself exemplifies.

-- "Contemporary Literature"

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