Author: Catherine Cucinella File Type: pdf Poetics of the Body examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker. Drawing on both past and present discussions regarding the place of the body in relation to Western philosophy, gender, sexuality, desire, creative production, and narrative, this study reveals how the poetic bodies in the poetry of these women negotiate the intersecting ideologies that attempt to regulate the body, its characteristics, and its behaviors. Ultimately, this dynamic book considers what it means to possess a body.ReviewCucinellas intense book about bodily representation provides a new way of seeing the work of Millay, Bishop, Chin, and Hacker. Its synthetic theorizations, brilliant close readings, and final dialogue with Chin bring the study of the represented female body to a new plateau. An essential book.Steven Gould Axelrod, author of Sylvia Plath The Wound and the Cure of Words and co-editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volumes 1-3Poetics of the Body offers a first-rank conversation about the cultural politics of the body in recent American womens poetry. I predict that Cucinellas readings of Millay, Bishop, Chin, and Hacker will place her solidly at the forefront of a new wave of feminist scholars who write about poetry. This work is essential for anyone interested in the bodys often contentious relationship to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class.Camille Roman, author of Elizabeth Bishops World War II-Cold War View and co-editor of The Women & Language Debate A SourcebookCucinellas Poetics of the Body is a refreshing book. By listening attentively to the distinct story of the body that each of her four poets has to tell, Cucinella offers a compelling and diverse story of American womens poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For Cucinella, a poem is not a mask for the poet to hide behind but a place to explore and perform the problems, fears, challenges, and pleasures of the body. In elegant, theoretically sophisticated readings that ground each poets work in place, time, and experience, a unique poetics of the body comes into focusEdna St. Vincent Millays commodified body, Elizabeth Bishops ambiguous body, Marilyn Chins investigations of the body in the context of the Chinese American immigrant experience, and Marilyn Hackers complex intertwining of body and language. It is finally, though, the exuberance Cucinella conveys, the delight she takes in poetic craft, and the careful attention she pays to a poets body of work, that marks this book as worth reading.Bethany Hicok, author of Degrees of Freedom American Women Poets and the Womens College, 1905-1955About the AuthorCatherine Cucinella is Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Writing and the Womens Studies Program at California State University. She is the editor of Contemporary American Women Poets An A-to-Z Guide.

Author: Chris Howard-Woods File Type: epub When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. Suddenly, U.S. citizens who had previously thought of themselves as moderate began to wonder whether violence in defending their values against fellow citizens was not only an option, but a necessitywhether the way American history has been commonly presented is not only unfair but inaccurate whether the current President is to blame for the sudden visibility of white supremacist groups and finally, whether a surge in racism and ultra-nationalism is irrevocably re-shaping the country. Charlottesville Before & Beyond untangles the meaning of the events that unfolded last August. Part One of the book documents and comments upon the immediate aftermath of the violence. Part Two addresses the context, both before and after, for interpreting the violence essays reflect on the social and cultural landscape of the nation, the role of the media, and the logic of punching Nazis in the face. Including writing by Eric Anthamatten, Nicholas Baer, Wes Bellamy, Keval Bhatt, Vaughn A. Booker, Andrew Boyer, Maria Bucur, Jordan Dunn, Mindy Fullilove, Laura Goldblatt, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Maggie Hennefeld, Christopher Howard-Woods, Jeffrey Isaac, Michael Sasha King, Mitchell Kosters, Jared Loggins, Gordon Mantler, Marcus McCullough, Rachel McKinney, Julia Ott, Claire Potter, Isaac Ariail Reed, Neil Roberts, Melvin Rogers, Sanford Schram, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Michael Weinman, Leonard A. Williams, and Deva Woodly. **Review Praise for *#Charlottesville* Decent American citizens currently find themselves facing what daily feels like social and political disaster. The presidency of Donald Trump is not the first to sympathize with white supremacy, but his and the present administrations shameless racism raises fresh questions about recent narratives of Americas post-racial triumph. #Charlottesville Before and Beyond is a crucially timely volume collecting an impressive and necessary range of activists, public figures, and academics ruminating on the precedents of alt-right white supremacists descending on Charlottesville, VA in 2017, the resulting death of Heather Heyer, and, importantly, how we should measure our expectations and actions in putting America on a more firm footing in the project of racial redemption. An essential volume for all concerned citizens academics, students, and the general public. Chris Lebron, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, author of The Making of Black Lives Matter A Brief History of An Idea A crucially timely volume . . . essential for all concerned citizens. Chris Lebron, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and author of The Making of Black Lives Matter A Brief History of An Idea Its one thing to deplore the events at Charlottesville and another to probe the circumstances that rendered them possible. This book admirably fulfills the second need without ever losing sight of the first. Nancy Fraser, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, author of Fortunes of Feminism From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis About the Author CHRIS HOWARD-WOODS is the Media Editor at Public Seminar, and B.A. candidate in philosophy at Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts. COLIN LAIDLEY is an editor at Public Seminar and a graduate student pursuing an M.A. in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School. MARYAM OMIDI is an editor at Public Seminar and an M.A. candidate in psychology at the New School for Social Research. PUBLIC SEMINAR (publicseminar.org) is an online publishing project of The New School University in New York City.