Book - Modernist Women Poets : An Anthology (2015, Paperback) DJV, FB2, EPUB
9781619025424 English 1619025426 The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adelaide Crapsey, Angelina Weld Grimke, Anne Spencer, Mina Loy, Hazel Hall, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, and Hildegarde Flanner. With an introduction from Hass and Ebenkamp,as well as detailed annotation through out to guide the reader, this wonderful collection of poems will bring together the great female writers of the modernist period as well as deconstruct the language and writing that surfaced during that period., Thus Thrilling Collection of the work of fourteen poets offers for the first time together the great women of Modernism, a transformative period in painting, dance, music and sculpture, as well as literature. They were surrounded by their better-known male counterparts, but they were forging a whole new landscape of Modernism, with greater variation and deeper experimentation than their male colleagues. C.D. Wright introduces the collection with a welcoming, biographical essay. The editors, Paul Ebenkamp and Robert Hass, provide notes, and Hass offers a long afterword considering Modernism and the poetics of these wonderful writers. As he says, "The young modernists did their work, with varying emphases, from what seems now to have been three impulses. The first was a feeling that the old culture, the Christian high culture of the West or at least American evangelical culture, needed entire renovation, that the old values had failed. It was an idea that the senseless carnage of the first World War intensified. The second was the feeling that the arts themselves needed to start all over, to find a new footing. And the third was a belief in the power of art and of the artist.... These women were negotiating what it meant to be a woman and an artist when there was a powerful masculinist rhetoric in the arts and a powerful feminism in the streets. And, unlike their male counterparts, there were not many models available to them for how to be a woman artist. They were making it up, and they knew they were making it up." Book jacket.
9781619025424 English 1619025426 The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adelaide Crapsey, Angelina Weld Grimke, Anne Spencer, Mina Loy, Hazel Hall, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, and Hildegarde Flanner. With an introduction from Hass and Ebenkamp,as well as detailed annotation through out to guide the reader, this wonderful collection of poems will bring together the great female writers of the modernist period as well as deconstruct the language and writing that surfaced during that period., Thus Thrilling Collection of the work of fourteen poets offers for the first time together the great women of Modernism, a transformative period in painting, dance, music and sculpture, as well as literature. They were surrounded by their better-known male counterparts, but they were forging a whole new landscape of Modernism, with greater variation and deeper experimentation than their male colleagues. C.D. Wright introduces the collection with a welcoming, biographical essay. The editors, Paul Ebenkamp and Robert Hass, provide notes, and Hass offers a long afterword considering Modernism and the poetics of these wonderful writers. As he says, "The young modernists did their work, with varying emphases, from what seems now to have been three impulses. The first was a feeling that the old culture, the Christian high culture of the West or at least American evangelical culture, needed entire renovation, that the old values had failed. It was an idea that the senseless carnage of the first World War intensified. The second was the feeling that the arts themselves needed to start all over, to find a new footing. And the third was a belief in the power of art and of the artist.... These women were negotiating what it meant to be a woman and an artist when there was a powerful masculinist rhetoric in the arts and a powerful feminism in the streets. And, unlike their male counterparts, there were not many models available to them for how to be a woman artist. They were making it up, and they knew they were making it up." Book jacket.