Innovative Women Poets

by Frost, Elisabeth A.; Hogue, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9781587295072
• ISBN10: 1587295075
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

In this unusual and insightful collection, fourteen full-length literary interviews with innovative female poets of the last forty years, enhanced with a selection of their poems and prefaced by short introductions, present a wide and accessible range of forms, schools, politics, and conversations. By giving us each poet's own voice in a medium other than poetry, the interviews provide important cultural and historical contexts that help define notions of innovation and contribute to a fuller understanding of these experimental poems. Poets and literary scholars Elisabeth Frost and Cynthia Hogue selected writers with particular attention to diversity in terms of ethnicity, philosophical concerns, and aesthetic movements, including the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, and language writing. By bringing together poets not usually considered in the same critical context, the editors clarify the ways in which these innovative women have affected ideas of poetry and poetic practice. The engaging interviews (whose questions are often as interesting and informed as the responses), introductory texts, and selected poems allow readers to forge productive connections among the most important voices of late twentieth-century American poetry.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Frost is the author of The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry (IOWA 2003); she is associate professor of English at Fordham University. She has published poetry in such journals as Boulevard, the Denver Quarterly, and the Yale Review. Cynthia Hogue is professor of English and Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. Author of Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity, she has published three poetry collections and two chapbooks of poetry.

Table of Contents

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
An interview with Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua	p. 13
Cihuatlyotl, woman alone	p. 29
Del otro lado	p. 30
Don't give in, Chicanita	p. 32
Interface	p. 34
Poets have strange eating habits	p. 40
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Two conversations with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	p. 45
Chinese space	p. 57
Empathy	p. 59
I love morning	p. 62
Honey	p. 64
Jayne Cortez
An interview with Jayne Cortez	p. 71
So many feathers	p. 79
If the drum is a woman	p. 82
Lynch fragment 2	p. 83
Rape	p. 84
About flyin' home	p. 86
States of motion	p. 87
Bumblebee, you saw big mama	p. 89
Rachel Blau Duplessis
An interview with Rachel Blau DuPlessis	p. 95
from Crowbar	p. 110
from Writing	p. 111
Draft 27 : athwart	p. 112
from Draft 52 : midrash	p. 117
Alice Fulton
An interview with Alice Fulton	p. 123
Fuzzy feelings	p. 142
from Give : a sequence reimagining Daphne & Apollo	p. 146
The permeable past tense of feel	p. 151
Susan Howe
An interview with Susan Howe	p. 157
from The nonconformist's memorial	p. 174
Harryette Mullen
An interview with Harryette Mullen	p. 191
from Trimmings	p. 208
from S*PeRM**K*T	p. 209
from Muse & drudge	p. 210
All she wrote	p. 215
Bilingual instructions	p. 215
Black Nikes	p. 216
Zen Acorn	p. 217
Alice Notley
An interview with Alice Notley	p. 221
from Desamere	p. 236
Alicia Ostriker
An interview with Alicia Ostriker	p. 251
The eighth and thirteenth	p. 262
About time	p. 265
from The volcano and the covenant	p. 266
Sonia Sanchez
An interview with Sonia Sanchez	p. 277
A/coltrane/poem	p. 293
Blues	p. 297
Sister's voice (read to "'round midnight")	p. 297
A poem for Ella Fitzgerald	p. 299
Leslie Scalapino
An interview with Leslie Scalapino	p. 305
As - leg	p. 320
Crowd and not evening or light	p. 325
C. D. Wright
An interview with C. D. Wright	p. 329
from Deepstep come shining	p. 342
Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser
An interview with Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser	p. 354
Parachutes, my love, could carry us higher	p. 374
An emphasis falls on reality	p. 375
The rose marble table	p. 376
Spirit tree	p. 378
Turret	p. 378
Petticoat	p. 379
Noisetone	p. 379
from "Turler losses"	p. 380
Norchia from Etruscan pages	p. 385
from "Wing"	p. 390
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