Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry

9780393652369

First edition

xx, 411 pages ; 25 cm

Essays. Selections

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index

The treasures that prevail / Sandra M. Gilbert
On lies, secrets, and silence: selected prose 1966-1978. When we dead awaken: writing as revision ; Jane Eyre: temptations of a motherless woman ; Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson
Uncollected. Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading ; Caryatid: a column
Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution (1976). Foreword ; Anger and tenderness ; Motherhood and daughterhood
Blood, bread, and poetry: selected prose 1979-1985. What does a woman need to know?
Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience ; Split at the root: an essay on Jewish identity ; The eye of the outsider: Elizabeth Bishop's complete poems, 1927-1979 ; Blood, bread, and poetry: the location of the poet
What is found there: notebooks on poetry and politics (1993, 2003). Woman and bird ; Voices from the air ; The distance between language and violence ; Not how to write poetry, but wherefore ; "Rotted names" ; A poet's education ; Tourism and promised lands ; Six meditations in place of a lecture
Arts of the possible (2001). Muriel Rukeyser: her vision ; Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts ; Arts of the possible
A human eye (2009). Permeable membrane ; Poetry and the forgotten future

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Gilbert, Sandra M., editor, writer of introduction