{"product_id":"north-american-women-poets-in-the-21st-century-beyond-lyric-and-language-9780819579423","title":"North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWomen poets writing at the intersections of different schools of poetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language\u003c\/i\u003e is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. Among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Catherine Cucinella on Marilyn Chin, Meg Tyler on Fanny Howe, Elline Lipkin on Alice Notley, Kamran Javadizadeh on Claudia Rankine, and many more. A companion web site will present audio of each poet's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalling, Natasha Trethewey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMexico 1969 \u003cbr\u003eWhy not make a fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof the mind's fictions? I want to say\u003cbr\u003eit begins like this: the trip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea pilgrimage, my mother \u003cbr\u003ekneeling at the altar of the Black Virgin, \u003cbr\u003eenthralled--light streaming in \u003cbr\u003ea window, the sun \u003cbr\u003eat her back, holy water \u003cbr\u003ein a bowl she must have touched. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat's left is palimpsest--one memory \u003cbr\u003ebleeding into another, overwriting it. \u003cbr\u003eHow else to explain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhat remains? The sound \u003cbr\u003eof water in a basin I know is white, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe sun behind her, light streaming in, \u003cbr\u003eher face--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eas if she were already dead--blurred \u003cbr\u003eas it will become. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI want to imagine her beforethe altar, rising to meet us, my father \u003cbr\u003elifting me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etoward her outstretched arms. \u003cbr\u003eWhat else to make\u003cbr\u003eof the mind's slick confabulations? \u003cbr\u003eWhat comes back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis the sun's dazzle on a pool's surface, \u003cbr\u003elight filtered through water\u003cbr\u003eclosing over my head, my mother--her body between me and the high sun, a corona of light \u003cbr\u003earound her face. \u003cbr\u003eWhy not call it a vision? What I know is this: \u003cbr\u003eI was drowning and saw a dark Madonna; \u003cbr\u003esomeone pulled me through \u003cbr\u003ethe water's bright ceiling \u003cbr\u003eand I rose, initiate, \u003cbr\u003efrom one life into another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819579423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Lisa Sewell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507519221941,"sku":"9780819579423","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3e415edd-8606-43bc-acf1-7425e7e5dd24.jpg?v=1778565528","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/north-american-women-poets-in-the-21st-century-beyond-lyric-and-language-9780819579423","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}