Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Award-winning poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor emerita of English at Temple University, is also a critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry. She is the author of several critical books, including Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. DuPlessis is also the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen.

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The Feminist Memoir Project

Voices from Women's Liberation

Rutgers University Press

The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. These thirty-two writers were among the thousands to jump-start feminism in the late twentieth century. Here, in pieces that are passionate, personal, critical, and witty, they describe what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Objectivist Nexus

Essays in Cultural Poetics

University of Alabama Press

Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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We Who Love to Be Astonished

Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Active Romanticism

The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

University of Alabama Press

This collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as "secular," and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. These poets and critics address these questions by exploring the legacy of those poets who preceded and influenced them--Stein, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Oppen, and Ginsberg, among others.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Thinking Poetics

Essays on George Oppen

Edited by Steve Shoemaker
University of Alabama Press

Thinking Poetics is a testament to Oppen's place in 20th and 21st-century poetic culture and an essential volume for anyone interested in Oppen's life or poetry

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Pink Guitar

Writing as Feminist Practice

University of Alabama Press

The Pink Guitar is a landmark study of women's writing and poetics—and representations of women artists—in the 20th Century.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Blue Studios

Poetry and Its Cultural Work

University of Alabama Press

Examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Conceptualisms

The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art

Edited by Steve Tomasula
University of Alabama Press

A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices

University of Alabama Press

A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms—the long poem

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Oppens Remembered

Poetry, Politics, and Friendship

University of New Mexico Press

In this book the poets, editors, writers, composers, and teachers who knew the couple consider their encounters and relationships with George and Mary Oppen.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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