American Women Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Editor’s Note......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Gwendolyn Brooks: An Essential Sanity......Page 11
“Never Having Had You, I Cannot Let You Go”: Sharon Olds’s Poems of a Father–Daughter Relationship......Page 32
Rita Dove: Identity Markers......Page 45
New Dreaming: Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko......Page 67
Louise Glück’s Nine Lives......Page 84
And This Poem Recognizes That: Embracing Contrarieties in the Poetry of Nikki Giovanni......Page 97
Maya Angelou on the Inaugural Stage......Page 120
Black Names in White Space: Lucille Clifton’s South......Page 137
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and the Allure of Incest......Page 150
Drifting in the Weeds of Heaven: Mary Oliver and the Poetics of the Immeasurable......Page 175
Adrienne Rich’s Anti-Confessional Poetics......Page 191
Chronology......Page 218
Contributors......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 229
Acknowledgments......Page 233
Index......Page 235