| Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays Contributor(s): Stevenson, Anne Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472096451 ISBN-13: 9780472096459 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $79.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: Critics may be both invigorated and infuriated by this collection of essays by poet Anne Stevenson--who believes that the "takeover" of poetry by critical theorists has, in recent years, all but brought about its demise in England and America. Her essays on Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Irish poetry, and other subjects upset existing assumptions of the "postmodern" era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections | Essays - Poetry |
| Dewey: 824.914 |
| LCCN: 98019832 |
| Series: Poets on Poetry (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.38" W x 8.32" (0.90 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Never affiliated with any group or school, Anne Stevenson grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was educated at the University of Michigan where, in 1954, she won a Major Hopwood Prize for poetry. Since 1964 she has lived in the United Kingdom where a restless career as a mother, teacher, bookseller, and skep-tical enthusiast for some poetry has produced many volumes of verse, a highly controversial biography of Sylvia Plath, and two critical introductions to the work of Elizabeth Bishop. Feminist critics will find much to invigorate and infuriate them in these essays. Stevenson believes that the takeover of poetry by critical theorists has, in recent years, all but brought about its demise in England and America. But she also fears that the media's doctrine of mass marketability may have a detrimental effect on the future of poetry. Her essays on Plath, Bishop, Irish poetry, and other subjects are as witty as they are challenging, upsetting many of the easy assumptions of our putatively postmodern era. Anne Stevenson is the author of numerous books, including Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, The Other House, Four and a Half Dancing Men, and most recently, Collected Poems 1955- 1995. |