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We Who Love to Be Astonished : Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics (Modern Contemporary Poetics Series) by Laura Hinton; Cynthia Hogue; Charles Borkhuis; Carla Harryman; Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Ron Silliman; Alan Golding; Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Lynn Keller; Linda A. Kinnahan; Nicole Cooley; Heather H. Thomas; Kathleen Crown; Eileen Gregory; Susan McCabe; AnaLouise Keating; Jonathan Monroe; Charles Altieri is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><i>We Who Love to Be Astonished</i> collects a powerful group of previously unpublished essays to fill a gap in the critical evaluation of women's contributions to postmodern experimental writing. Contributors include Alan Golding, Aldon Nielsen, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; discussions include analyses of the work of Kathleen Fraser, Harryette Mullen, and Kathy Acker, among others. The editors take as their title a line from the work of Lyn Hejinian, one of the most respected of innovative women poets writing today. <P> The volume is organized into four sections: the first two seek to identify, from two different angles, the ways women of different sociocultural backgrounds are exploring their relationships to their cultures' inherited traditions; the third section investigates the issue of visuality and the problems and challenges it creates; and the fourth section expands on the role of the body as material and performance. <P> The collection will breach a once irreconcilable divide between those who theorize about women's writing and those who focus on formalist practice. By embracing astonishment as the site of formalist-feminist investigation, the editors seek to show how fo

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Author

Laura Hinton; Cynthia Hogue; Charles Borkhuis; Carla Harryman; Aldon Lynn Nielsen; Ron Silliman; Alan Golding; Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Lynn Keller; Linda A. Kinnahan; Nicole Cooley; Heather H. Thomas; Kathleen Crown; Eileen Gregory; Susan McCabe; AnaLouise Keating; Jonathan Monroe; Charles Altieri

Publisher

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817310950

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Short Stories

Rating

4.75 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14