| Writing Like a Woman Contributor(s): Ostriker, Alicia Suskin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472063472 ISBN-13: 9780472063475 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $20.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1983 Annotation: Essays on women poets and on the relationship between gender and creativity |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.540 |
| LCCN: 82021959 |
| Series: Poets on Poetry (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.31" W x 7.97" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "'If we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly as we think, ' as Woolf puts it in A Room of One's Own, writing like a woman simply means writing like what one actually is, in sickness and health, richer and poorer, belly and bowels, the consonants and the vowels too. We may have a general sense that women poets are more likely than men, at the present time, to write in detail about their bodies; to take power relationships as a theme; to want to speak with a strong rather than a subdued voice; are less likely to seek distance, more likely to seek intimacy, in poetic tone. But generalization would be foolish here. 'Woman poet, ' like 'American poet' or 'French poet' or 'Russian poet, ' allows--even insists on--diversity, while implying something valuable in common, some shared language and life, of tremendous importance to the poet and the poet's readers." --Alicia Ostriker |