Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

What is patriarchal poetry? How can it be both attractive and tempting and yet be so hegemonic that it is invisible? How does it combine various mixes of masculinity, femininity, effeminacy, and eroticism? At once passionate and dispassionate, Rachel Blau DuPlessis meticulously outlines key moments of choice and debate about masculinity among writers as disparate as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609380843
• ISBN13: 9781609380847
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"