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The Grand Permission
New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood
Edited Patricia Dienstfrey , Brenda Hillman
Sales Date: 2003-05-08
304 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in
How writing and motherhood influence one another.
The Grand Permission is a book of deeply enriching and articulate meditations on motherhood and the composition of poetry by practicing poets. The 32 contributors write with originality and commitment about the startling, intense and dynamic connections between motherhood and creative achievement—connections that shed new light on the nature of language and genre, the practical life of mothering and the writing vocation. The book combines intimacy of tone and discussion of serious personal issues in new essays written in varied and innovative forms. This wonderful book is an ideal gift for mothers of all ages and creative pursuits, and especially valuable for writers concerned about how life decisions impact artistic choices.
CONTRIBUTORS: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jill Bialosky, Eavan Boland, Stephanie Brown, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Toi Derricotte, Barbara Einzig, Carolyn Forché, Kathleen Fraser, Susan Gervirtz, Dale Going, Susan Griffin, Mimiko Hahn, Carla Harryman, Fanny Howe, Erica Hunt, Claudia Keelan, Maxine Kumin, Laura Moriarty, Carol Muske, Alice Notley, Alicia Ostriker, Maureen Owen, Frances Phillips, Pam Rehm, Elizabeth Robinson, Camille Roy, Mary Margaret Soan, C.D. Wright.
PIERCING COMMOTION: SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL COMMOTION
Motherhood and Poetics – Maxine Kumin
When as a Girl on the Plains of Minnesota – Maureen Owe
The World is not Precisely Round: Piercing Commotion (on writing and Motherhood) – Erica Hunt
Not a Perfect Mother – Stephane Brown
My Motherhood – Camille Roy
Erasing Names, Multiplying Alliances – Claudia Keelan
Writing National Birth – Toi Derricotte
Emergence – Carolyn Forche
OB(LIT)ERATION: GENRE AND REPRESENTATION
The Other Sylvia Plath – Evan Boland
Pulse and Impulse, The Zuihist – Kimiko Hahn
And the Motherhood of Poetics – Susan Griffin
Elaborations of Between: The Interpolation of a child into a Writer's Poetics – Mary Margaret Sloan
The Writing Being – Laura Moriarty
Radiance in the Story Lattice – Patricia Dienstfrey
Parallel Play – Carla Harryman
SIGNALS GIVEN: LANGUAGE PARADIGMS
Doublings – Alice Notely
To book as in to foal. To son. – Kathleen Fraser
Notes on "Listen" – Alicia Ostriker
Beyond Impatience: On Motherhood and Poetry – Pam Rehm
Allowance: A Poetics of Motherhood – Frances N. Phillips
The One Absolutely Beautiful Thing: My Relationship to Poetry and Motherhood Through the Voices of Women Poets – Jill Bailosky
Heart Murmer – Carol Muske-Dukes
In a Ring of Cows Is the Signal Given - C.D.Wright
A THIRD SPACE: TEMPORAL AND OTHER CROSSINGS
Language and the Gaze at the Other: a Poetics of Birth – Gillian Conoley
Eighty-Five Notes – Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Resuscitations – Susan Gevirtz
Untitled - (M) Norma Cole
Poetma – Dale Going
First Things First notes toward a discovery of Being a Mother Being a Writer – Barbara Einzig
Split, Spark, and Space – Brenda Hillman
Gaps, Overflow, and Linkage: A Synesthesiac Look at Motherhood and Writing – Elizabeth Robinson
The Pinocchain Ideal – Fanny Howe
PATRICIA DIENSTFREY's most recent book of prose-poetry, The Woman Without Experiences (1995), was the winner of the America Award for Fiction. She is a co-founder of Kelsey Street Press. BRENDA HILLMAN is the author of Cascadia (Wesleyan, 2001). She has received many awards, including the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry. RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS is Professor of English at Temple University.
"It is an exciting layering of parallel stories, musings, and investigations. The voices are frank, challenging, and intimate."
~Rachel Kubie, Oyster Boy Review
"This invaluable anthology charts major cultural and ethical shifts concerning the once (mutually) exclusive figures of mother and poet. The formally diverse pressures accompanying these simultaneously intimate and public roles are deftly compelling."
~Ann Vickery, author of Leaving Lines of Gender
"Only in recent decades have numerous women been able to combine being a mother and a poet. These bold and revelatory meditations testify to the significance of that development for the continual reinvention of poetry."
~Lynn Keller, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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