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Poetry and Poetics I: Culture and Identity in Post-WW II Poetry

Session 3 - Saturday 1:15-2:45pm
Henry Hall 202
Presiding Officer: 
Steven Gould Axelrod
  1. "No Woman Is My Sovereign": Isabella Gardner and Her Male Mentors. Marian Janssen, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Isabella Gardner (1915-1981) was a woman poet in a man’s world. Internalizing many of the values of her time, she was not considered competition by her established male peers.

  2. Amy Gerstler and a Cognitive Poetics. Elizabeth Spies, University of California, Riverside

    Through the use of advertising, nature, and even pseudo-science, Gerstler presents a poetic language that plays with ideas about postmodern perception and cognition.

  3. California Dreaming: Hollywood and Identity in Frank Bidart. Jeffrey Gray, Seton Hall University

    In Bidart’s recent poems we see the fruition of his sustained inquiry into the problem of identity. Bidart suggests that the source of our self-making lies in the store of our cultural products, which are paradigmatically inauthentic.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed