{"product_id":"flawed-light-american-women-poets-and-alcohol-9780252034619","title":"Flawed Light  American Women Poets and Alcohol","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen poets who found both inspiration and isolation at the bottom of the glass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A skilled critic and biographer, Brett C. Millier makes a convincing case for the way these poems engage, often in veiled forms, with both the allures of alcohol for women writers and the consequent dangers of alcoholism. An intelligent and captivating work.\"--Thomas Travisano, editor of \u003ci\u003eWords in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinarily important, groundbreaking book that moves the study of women's poetry forward by great leaps. Millier offers precious new information about women poets and focuses on their shared life-frustrations as well as their shared aesthetic strategies.\"--Annie Finch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCredits  .  vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface  .  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  .  xv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e Women Poets and Alcohol  .  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 \"JUST A LITTLE ONE\"\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy Parker as Archetype  .  17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 THE ALCHEMIST\u003cbr\u003e Louis Bogan  .  14\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 \"I MUST NOT DIE OF PITY\"\u003cbr\u003e Edna St. Vincent Millay's Addictions  .  60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 \"HOLD TO OBLIVION\"\u003cbr\u003e Elinor Wylie's Intolerable Life  .  78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 \"THOUGHT'S END\"\u003cbr\u003e Leonie Adams and the Life of the Mind  .  93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 \"WORDS FROM THE PIAZZA DEL LIMBO\"\u003cbr\u003e Isabella Gardner as Fallen Woman  .  111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 THE PRODIGAL\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Bishop's Exile  .  128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 JEAN GARRIGUE\u003cbr\u003e An Epilogue  .  150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AFTERWORD  .  161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  .  167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  .  181\u003cbr\u003e Index  .  193\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036817555799,"sku":"9780252034619","price":41.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252034619.jpg?v=1750932642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flawed-light-american-women-poets-and-alcohol-9780252034619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}