The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood [Hardcover]

Patricia Dienstfrey (Editor), Brenda Hillman (Editor), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2003

How writing and motherhood influence one another.

Editorial Reviews

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"It is an exciting layering of parallel stories, musings, and investigations. The voices are frank, challenging, and intimate. "--Rachel Kubie, Oyster Boy Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"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 ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wesleyan (May 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819566438
• ISBN-13: 978-0819566430
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,605,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dale Going is a poet, book artist and founder of Em Press in Mill Valley, California. Her books include "As/Of the Whole" (San Francisco State University), "The View They Arrange" (Kelsey St. Press), "Leaves from a Gradual" (Potes & Poets) and two Em Press chapbooks, "Or Less" and "She Pushes With Her Hands." Em Press letterpress editions of poetry by women are in the special collections of university and public libraries and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Dale has received a California Arts Council Grant, the San Francisco State University Chapbook Award, fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the NY State Latin Teacher's Award at age 16 for her first publication, a translation from Virgil's Aenid. She has written & performed for poets' theater, taught book arts, curated an exhibit of artists' books by poets, co-founded the literary zine ROOMS and recreated it as a blog, written reviews and interviews, hosted a poetry radio show, and contributed text to the work of visual artists. She was born in upstate New York, where she summers in the Adirondacks, and lives in Mill Valley and Dos Rios, California.