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  title info:
    title: Male poets and the agon of the mother
    sub title: contexts in confessional and postconfessional poetry
  name:
    name part: Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gill, Jo
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 228 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: When looking back today on the American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, we see that for many of the major, and still dominant, poets of the period, the confessional mode was a vital force. It made, and, of course, was shaped by, Robert Lowell, whose 1959 Life Studies prompted the delineation of the style. It galvanized Sylvia Plath, sustained Anne Sexton and provided a useful countertradition even for those who never identified themselves as "confessional" (most obviously Elizabeth Bishop). It also proved fundamental to the careers of many poets of the next generation (including Thom Gunn and Sharon Olds)--even as such successors to the original "school" spent much of their time resisting, or at least rethinking, the terms of the debate.
  table of contents: Introduction: "At the center of how I think my life": my mother -- "And, moreover / my mother says": Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and confessional maternity -- "Freaked in the moon brain": Allen Ginsberg and Frank Bidart: confessing crazy mothers -- Postconfessional stories: C.K. Williams and Robert Hass on maternal breasts and mouths -- "Yellow flowers ... with mouths like where / babies come from": Yusef Komunyakaa's innuendos, ideas, and insinuations about motherhood -- "And all this time I've stayed awake with you": romanticism in Stanley Plumly's maternal metaphor -- "I am made by her, and undone": an Anglo-American coda; or, Thom Gunn undone -- Conclusion: "You still haven't finished with your mother": men constructing a poetics of motherhood.
  note: Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ; foreword by Jo Gill.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and sons in literature
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood in literature
  subject:
    topic: Confession in literature
  subject:
    topic: Men and literature
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PS325 .S25 2019
  classification: 811/.54099286
  identifier: 9781611179682
  identifier: 1611179688
  identifier: 2018049273
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181105
    record change date: 20191021075334.0
    record identifier: in00004075405