The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat by Kang, Nancy

The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822965428)

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The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat by Kang, Nancy

The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat

$45.00
The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat by Kang, Nancy

The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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Honorable Mention, 2021 SSAWW Book Award

The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections.

The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvre--her publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segments--this work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s placed on literary artists, critics, and readers alike.

Author: Nancy Kang, Silvio Torres-Saillant
ISBN-10: 0822965429
ISBN-13: 9780822965428
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2018
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Nancy Kang
By Nancy Kang
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Nancy Kang is assistant professor of multicultural and diaspora literatures at the University of Baltimore. She is coeditor of The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott.

Silvio Torres-Saillant is professor of English and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. He is the author of Caribbean Poetics; Introduction to Dominican Blackness; and An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, among other works.

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