Blue studios poetry and its cultural work - DuPlessis, Rachel Blau (University of Alabama Press, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index
Reader, I married me : becoming a feminist critic -- F-words : an essay on the essay -- Blue studio : gender arcades -- Manifests -- Marble paper : toward a feminist "history of poetry" -- Propounding modernist maleness : how Pound managed a muse -- Lorine Niedecker, the anonymous : gender, class, genre, and resistances -- The gendered marvelous : Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception -- "Uncannily in the open" : in light of Oppen -- On Drafts : a memorandum of understanding -- Haibun : "draw your draft" -- Inside the middle of a long poem
Frances's story moves in reverse: beginning with her dementia in old age, her narrative moves backwards into lucidity, through a cruel and loveless marriage, the birth of her son Jeffrey, and into a childhood that she recalls fondly as a time of innocence and belonging