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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics promotes and pursues topics in the burgeoning field of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics. Critical and scholarly work on poetry and poetics of interest to the series includes social location in its relationships to subjectivity, to the construction of authorship, to oeuvres, and to careers; poetic reception and dissemination (groups, movements, formations, institutions); the intersection of poetry and theory; ques- tions about language, poetic authority, and the goals of writing; claims in poetics, impacts of social life, and the dynamics of the poetic career as these are staged and debated by poets and inside poems. Topics that are bibliographic, pedagogic, that concern the social field of poetry, and reflect on the history of poetry studies are valued as well. This series focuses both on individual poets and texts and on larger movements, poetic institutions, and questions about poetic authority, social identifications, and aesthetics. Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson The American Cratylus Carla Billitteri Modernism and Poetic Inspiration The Shadow Mouth Jed Rasula The Social Life of Poetry Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism Chris Green Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian David W. Huntsperger Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse H.D., Loy, and Toomer Lara Vetter Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry Andrew Mossin The Poetry of Susan Howe History, Theology, Authority Will Montgomery Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry Ross Hair Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry Ann Marie Mikkelsen (Re:)Working the Ground Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan Edited by James Maynard Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture Marsha Bryant Previous Publications Auden and Documentary in the 1930s. 1997. Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature. 1996. Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture Marsha Bryant WOMEN’S POETRY AND POPULAR CULTURE Copyright © Marsha Bryant, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-60941-9 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-137-38621-2 ISBN 978-0-230-33963-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230339637 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bryant, Marsha, 1960– Women's poetry and popular culture / Marsha Bryant. p. cm.—(Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics) 1. English poetry—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. American poetry—Women authors—History and criticism. 3. Popular culture in literature. 4. Popular culture and literature—Great Britain— History. 5. Popular culture and literature—United States—History. I. Title. PR116.B79 2011 821(cid:2).9099287—dc22 2011013947 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2012 For Cassandra, Gail, and Michael Contents List of Figures ix Permissions xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Key Signatures, Signature Styles 1 Chapter 1 CinemaScope Poetics: H.D., Helen, and 21 Historical Epic Film Chapter 2 The Poetry Picture Book: Stevie Smith and 51 Children’s Culture Chapter 3 Uneasy Alliances: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, 83 and Whiteness Chapter 4 Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen 121 Chapter 5 Killer Lyrics: Ai, Carol Ann Duffy, and 149 the Media Monologue Key Notes: Manifesto for Women’s Poetry Studies 175 Notes 189 Works Cited 201 Index 223 Figures 1.1 Helen entering Troy, Helena (Bavaria Film, 1924) 26 1.2 Helen meets Paris, Helen of Troy (Warner Brothers, 1956) 34 2.1 Stevie Smith’s drawing for “Papa Love Baby” 58 2.2 Stevie Smith’s drawing for “The Photograph” 61 2.3 Page from Edward Ardizzone’s Tim All Alone (1957) 67 2.4 The page of Stevie Smith’s “Bog-Face” 69 2.5 Stevie Smith’s drawing for “Nourish Me on an Egg” 75 4.1 Bon Ami© advertisement from Ladies’ Home Journal (1957) 145 6.1 Front cover to Making for Planet Alice (1997) 178
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