Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother: Contexts in Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry

by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

Book Overview

A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhood

In the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh argues that male...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611179688
• ISBN13: 9781611179682
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"