{"product_id":"male-poets-and-the-agon-hannah-baker-saltmarsh-9781611179682","title":"Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother: Contexts in Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eMale Poets and the Agon of the Mother, \u003c\/i\u003e Hannah Baker Saltmarsh argues that male poets have contributed to what we think of as the literature of motherhood--that confessional and postconfessional modes have been formative in the way male poets have grappled with the stories of their mothers and how those stories reflect on the writers and their artistic identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough careful readings of formative elegies and homages written by male poets of this time, Saltmarsh explores how they engaged with femininity and feminine voices in the 1950s and 60s and sheds light on the inheritance of confessional motifs of gender and language as demonstrated by postconfessional writers responding to the rich subject matter of motherhood within the contexts of history, myth, and literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA foreword is provided by Jo Gill, professor of twentieth-century and American literature in the Department of English and associate dean for education at the University of Exeter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hannah Baker Saltmarsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611179688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611179682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Hannah Baker Saltmarsh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068829692159,"sku":"9781611179682","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5be4d1bd-1634-4550-a269-5e41bc5dfea3.jpg?v=1685421238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/male-poets-and-the-agon-hannah-baker-saltmarsh-9781611179682","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}