Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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... Women's Weekenders,” purveyors of laughter and wisdom—who saved me from scholarly isolation, but I hope they know how much they mean to me. Once more my greatest debt is to my husband, Tai C. Kwong, who has steadied me with perspective ...
... Women's Literary Club in 1905 181 Immigrant children in their classroom, 1909 195 Recitation at an Americanization program, 1940 204 Mary Antin 210 Poetry in an Armed Services edition 228 Solitary poetry lover 244 Ella Lyman Cabot ...
... women's clubs, as parlor entertainment and bedtime routine, within religious ceremonies, at celebrity performances, and around Girl Scout campfires. Furthermore, the uses of verse in those settings gave the genre a cultural presence ...
... women. The Norton Anthology of American Literature (second edition, 1985) carefully specifies that modernism overlapped with traditionalist impulses. The Columbia History of American Poetry (1993) reclaims women poets as crucial makers ...
... women in their boudoirs, conceals modes of reading that entail collective activity. Long's prime example is the group reading of the women's book club; in my study, poetry appears both in that public setting and in numerous additional ...
Contents
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Celebrity and Cipher | 75 |
Alien and Intimate | 92 |
Listen My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools | 107 |
I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals | 165 |
Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends | 242 |
Gods in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse | 287 |
Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing OutofDoors | 336 |
Favorite Poems and Contemporary Readers | 381 |
Notes | 407 |
Index | 451 |