A gulf so deeply cut : American women poets and the Second World War

A gulf so deeply cut : American women poets and the Second World War / Susan Schweik.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schweik, Susan M. (Susan Marie), 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1991.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
War poetry, American > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Writing war poetry "like a woman" : Moore (and Jarrell)
  • Writing propaganda "like a man" : Millay (and MacLeish)
  • The masculine V-letter
  • (Not) playing with mimesis : Gwendolyn Brooks and the stuff of letters
  • The letter and the body : Muriel Rukeyser's "Letter to the front"
  • Toyo Suyemoto and the "pre-poetics" of internment
  • Identity and contestation in Nisei women's war poetry
  • An oblique place : Elizabeth Bishop and the language of war
  • Myrrh to myrrh : H.D., war, and biblical narrative.

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