{"product_id":"greenberg-zucker-eds-women-poetpb","title":"Greenberg, Arielle \u0026 Zucker, Rachel (eds.): Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Iowa Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 01, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eImagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman poet or not having a bookshelf filled with books written by living women poets. Luckily, young women poets today don't have to. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecollects both personal essays and representative poems by women born after 1960 whose careers were influenced--directly or indirectly--by the women who preceded them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poets in this collection describe a new kind of influence, one less hierarchical, less patriarchal, and less anxious than forms of mentorship in the past. Vivid and intelligent, these twenty-four essays explore the complicated nature of the mentoring relationship, with all its joys and difficulties, and show how this new sense of writing out of female experience and within a community of writers has fundamentally changed women's poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncludes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJenny Factor on Marilyn Hacker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeth Ann Fennelly on Denise Duhamel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiranda Field on Fanny Howe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKatie Ford on Jorie Graham\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy Katz on Sharon Olds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eValerie Martínez on Joy Harjo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErika Meitner on Rita Dove\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAimee Nezhukumatathil on Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEleni Sikelianos on Alice Notley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTracy K. Smith on Lucie Brock-Broido\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrystal Williams on Lucille Clifton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRebecca Wolff on Molly Peacock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817237688343,"sku":"9781587296390","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/616Ka61b23L._SL1500.jpg?v=1773961164","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/greenberg-zucker-eds-women-poetpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}