Flawed Light American Women Poets and Alcohol |
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| Author:
| Millier, Brett C. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-03461-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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The relationship between alcoholism and the poetic process has been well established, but the history of heavy-drinking poets in the twentieth century tilts disproportionately toward male writers such as John Berryman, Robert Lowell, or Theodore Roethke. Women poets, however, were just as susceptible to alcohol, and they very often wrote about its ......
The relationship between alcoholism and the poetic process has been well established, but the history of heavy-drinking poets in the twentieth century tilts disproportionately toward male writers such as John Berryman, Robert Lowell, or Theodore Roethke. Women poets, however, were just as susceptible to alcohol, and they very often wrote about its ......