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The grand permission
new writings on poetics and motherhood
By Dienstfrey, Patricia & Hillman, Brenda
- ISBN
- 978-0-81956-643-0
- Publisher
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
"In exploring motherhood in poetics, would I be considered a domestic poet, and hence a lesser poet of more narrow range?" asks Jill Bialosky in her essay "The One Absolutely Beautiful Thing," which sets the tone for this collection. Eclectic in both tone and treatment, the 32 essays included here address a mother's status as poet and present an intimate and realistic view of the rewards and complexities of combining motherhood and poetics. Evaluating the various ways in which mother...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
