Translating the Unspeakable - Poetry and the Innovative Necessity

A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.

About the author

Kathleen Fraser, award-winning poet, prose writer, and editor/publisher of the journal HOW("ever") and the new on-line journal HOW2, was Professor of Creative Writing for twenty years at San Francisco State University, where she directed The Poetry Center and founded the American Poetry Archives. Her most recent book of poems is "il cuore: the heart."

Summary

This collection of 18 essays by the poet Kathleen Fraser, combines autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for an artist to innovate instead of following an already travelled path. The essays also examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and their visual poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Fraser
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1999
• EAN: 9780817309909
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0990-9
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies