Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt

by Sarah Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Book Overview

The unique and powerful voice of an extraordinary nineteenth-century woman poet

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) now ranks as the most important American woman poet of the nineteenth century after Emily Dickinson. Published heavily in all the period's most prestigious journals, Piatt was widely celebrated by her peers as a gifted stylist in the genteel tradition. Palace-Burner, however, also reveals Piatt's other side: ironic, experimental, and pushing the limits of Victorian language, the sentimental female persona, and what women's poetry could say. Paula Bernat Bennett's astutely edited selection of Piatt's mature work--much of it never before collected--explains why her "deviant poetics" caused her peers such discomfort and why they remain such a fertile ground for study today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252072812
• ISBN13: 9780252072819
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years