Making for the Open - Softcover

Making for the Open. The Chatto Book of Post-Feminist Poetry 1964-1984

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Making For the Open. Slight mark to back cover from removal of old label. Slight shelf wear to bottom edge of cover. Few anthologies of contemporary poetry by women have the range or depth of this book. Drawing on work produced during the last twenty years, it contains a generous selection from Britain and America, as well as poems from Australia, Canada, Eastern Europe, El Salvador, Ireland, Israel, Russia, and many other countries. But it is not only the scope of the book which makes it unique. it is also remarkable for the fact that no writer has been included, or excluded, simply on the grounds of literary and social politics. The quality of the work alone, Carol Rumens says in her Introduction, must decide the argument for women to be taken seriously as poets. In this sense the book is post-feminist: while demonstrating that the struggle for women's freedom and justice has not been decisively and absolutely won, its authors have been able to choose not to concentrate exclusively on questions of gender and self-definition. At least within the circumscribed world of the poems, they are fully liberated. This book is a continuously engrossing and challenging anthology: one which celebrates the power of women as poets, and also illuminates broad issues of human rights - between countries as well as individuals. 151 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 091066

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