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Brett Candlish Millier - Flawed Light - 9780252034619 - V9780252034619
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Flawed Light

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Description for Flawed Light Hardback. Women poets who found both inspiration and isolation at the bottom of the glass Num Pages: 168 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

The relationship between alcoholism and the poetic process has been well established, but the history of heavy-drinking poets in the twentieth century tilts disproportionately toward male writers such as John Berryman, Robert Lowell, or Theodore Roethke. Women poets, however, were just as susceptible to alcohol, and they very often wrote about its effects on their bodies, minds, and lives. In this study, Brett C. Millier looks at the role of drinking in the lives and poetry of American women poets in the first half of the twentieth century. Millier reads the poems of Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Edna St. Vincent ... Read more

Despite the shame and isolation these writers suffered as a result of their heavy drinking and despite the oppressive restrictions on subject matter placed on women poets by the critical establishment in this era, these female poets nevertheless wrote about alcohol. Millier looks at figures for alcohol and inebriation that these writers used in their work in defiance of the masculine Modernist code of impersonality in art. As women in a remarkable tradition of female lyric poets, their subjects and voices were circumscribed by their sex, but their lasting poems artfully record these painful struggles.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034619
SKU
V9780252034619
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About Brett Candlish Millier
Brett C. Millier is Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature at Middlebury College and the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It and other works.

Reviews for Flawed Light
"Recommended."
Choice "A skilled critic and biographer, Brett C. Millier makes a convincing case for the way these poems engage, often in veiled forms, with both the allures of alcohol for women writers and the consequent dangers of alcoholism. An intelligent and captivating work."
Thomas Travisano, editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell "An extraordinarily ... Read more

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