{"product_id":"translating-the-unspeakable-kathleen-fraser-9780817309909","title":"Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets working\u003cbr\u003eoutside the mainstream. \u003ci\u003eTranslating the Unspeakable \u003c\/i\u003egathers eighteen of her essays written over nearly twenty years, combining autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for any artist to innovate instead of following an already traveled path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn autobiographical passages Fraser tells how her generation was influenced by revolutions in art and philosophy during the early 1960s and how she spent years pursuing idiosyncratic means of rediscovering the poem's terms. By the 1970s her evolving poetics were challenged by questions of gender, until immersion in feminist\/modernist scholarship led her to initiate greater dialogue among experimentalist poets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther essays examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and the visual poetics they have practiced. By exploring the work of such poets as H. D., Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, and Barbara Guest, Fraser conveys their struggle to establish a presence within accepted poetic conventions and describes the role experimentation plays in helping women overcome self-imposed silence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of Fraser's writings explore how the search to find one's own way of speaking into a very private yet historic space--of translating the unspeakable--drives poetic experimentation for women and men alike. This provocative book provides a glimpse into the thought processes of\u003cbr\u003ethe poetic mind, enhancing our understanding of innovative writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081730990X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817309909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.67d","brand":"Kathleen Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072819589375,"sku":"9780817309909","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca09ba22-3c38-432d-a14a-2233e55cbc04.jpg?v=1685444116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translating-the-unspeakable-kathleen-fraser-9780817309909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}