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Return to the Dark Valley
\"Manuela Beltrâan, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's 'dark valley.' There is Tertullian, an Argentine who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to consort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society. There is Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt. Then there are Juana and 'the consul, ' united in a complex relationship based on desire, need, and pain. Finally, there's Arthur Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose dramatic life story plays a central role in this kaleidoscopic tale\"--Taken from inner cover.
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Dickinson's Misery
How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? InDickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied together with string have become the Dickinson poems celebrated since her death as exemplary lyrics.
Jackson makes the larger argument that the century and a half spanning the circulation of Dickinson's work tells the story of a shift in the publication, consumption, and interpretation of lyric poetry. This shift took the form of what this book calls the \"lyricization of poetry,\" a set of print and pedagogical practices that collapsed the variety of poetic genres into lyric as a synonym for poetry.
Featuring many new illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a major contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It maps out the future for new work in historical poetics and lyric theory.
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Song of a captive bird : a novel
\"Although she is told that daughters should be quiet and modest, Forugh Farrokhzad finds ways to rebel - gossiping with her sister in the rose garden, composing poems behing her closed bedroom door, sneaking out with a teenage paramour. As a young woman in the 1950s, Forugh flees her forced marriage, returns to Tehran, and falls into a love affair. When her newfound freedom finds its voice on the page, her published poems - brilliant and utterly scandalous - polarize Iranian society. Unwilling to return to a traditional life, Forugh continues to live by her own rules, finding fulfillment and success - but at enormous cost. This spellbinding debut novel is about a trailblazing woman who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. Song of a Captive Bird captures the tenacity, passion, and conflicting desires of a rebellious spirit who, to this day, continues to inspire women around the world.\"--From back cover.
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Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez's remarkable contributions to Hispanic literature explore immigrant experiences, cultural identity, and resistance against injustice.
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Madeleine L'Engle
For Madeleine L’Engle, the starry night sky sparked profound questions about life, the universe, and her place in it. Inspired by science and spirituality, her extraordinary works of fiction have captured the hearts and minds of millions.
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Redefining Resistance: Revolutionary Women in Audre Lorde's \Who Said It Was Simple\
Audre Lorde's poetry, especially \"Who Said It Was Simple\", vividly illustrates her lived experiences as an African American lesbian woman navigating intersecting prejudices of racism, sexism, and homophobia. This study aims to analyze how Lorde's poem reflects and critiques societal norms that perpetuate inequality, particularly for Black women, and explores the poem's role in feminist discourse. The research employs a qualitative descriptive analysis with a focus on textual analysis. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, the study interprets the thematic elements of Lorde’s poem, examining how linguistic elements and symbols convey Lorde's experiences and societal critiques. The analysis reveals that Lorde’s poem addresses the systemic barriers faced by Black women, emphasizing how these barriers stem from the interplay of race, gender, and sexuality. The poem illustrates the isolation and marginalization Lorde experiences, both within her own community and in broader society. It concludes by highlighting the persistent divide in societal acceptance of diverse identities. This study contributes to the understanding of intersectional feminism by illustrating how Lorde’s poetry encapsulates the complexities of identity and resistance. It enhances the discourse on Black feminism by highlighting the unique struggles faced by Black lesbian women and how these struggles are articulated through poetic expression.
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History of the rain : a novel
Ruthie Swain, the bedridden daughter of a dead poet, tries to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in County Clare.
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American Hybrid Poetics
American Hybrid Poeticsexplores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets-Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine-use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions-consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversiveness-these poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles.
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