The Muse Strikes Back: A Poetic Response by Women to MenKatherine McAlpine, Gail White This lively anthology of spirited backtalk introduces the "reply poem" - a form in which the female subject of a male poet tells her side of the story. These poems are addressed to every level of the male-dominated poetry canon - from the Bible to Bukowski - and range in tone from wryly amused to fiercely outraged. Contributions to The Muse Strikes Back include work from Akhmatova, Atwood, Bogan, Bradstreet, Finch, H.D., Hacker, Jong, Kizer, Lowell, Olds, Parker, Sappho, and Sexton. The anthology includes a bibliography, indexes of contributing poets, the male poets addressed, and the titles and first lines. The anthology is designed to be of use to students as well as the general reading public, with footnotes provided for easy reference. |
Contents
Emilia Lanier Eves Apologie | 3 |
Enid Dame Dinas Happy Ending | 9 |
Looking Forward Looking Back | 15 |
B B Adams My Song for Solomon | 21 |
Margaret Atwood from CirceMud Poems | 31 |
B B Adams Anachronism | 37 |
Grace Simpson | 38 |
Meleager c 100 B C | 44 |
Matthew Arnold 18221888 | 156 |
Robert Bridges 18441930 | 162 |
Margaret Rogers Pied untidy | 164 |
Chanda J Glass Leda | 171 |
Ernest Dowson 18671900 | 177 |
Robert Frost 18741963 | 187 |
Rainer Maria Rilke 18751926 | 191 |
Phyllis Witte One Way of Looking at a Woman | 197 |
Catullus c 84C 54 B C | 53 |
Toni La Ree Bennett | 58 |
Beth Fein | 62 |
Dante Alighieri 12651321 | 69 |
Geoffrey Chaucer c 13401400 | 74 |
Robert Herrick 15911674 | 83 |
Susanna E Zeidler | 89 |
Richard Lovelace 16181658 | 95 |
Jonathan Swift 16671745 | 101 |
Alexander Pope 16881744 | 109 |
Oliver Goldsmith c 17301774 | 116 |
William Wordsworth 17701850 | 125 |
Margaret Rogers Poets and Peacocks | 132 |
John Keats 17951821 | 138 |
Mary Holtby To Edgar from Helen | 144 |
Joanne Seltzer My Last Duchess Responds | 150 |
Ezra Pound 18851972 | 206 |
Verna Safran Mermaids Song | 212 |
Judith Sornberger The Muse Says Shes Finished | 218 |
Sir John Betjeman 19061984 | 220 |
Robert Lowell 19171977 | 234 |
Richard Wilbur b 1921 | 242 |
Donald Hall b 1928 | 256 |
Mark Strand b 1934 | 261 |
Erica Jong The Perfect Poet | 267 |
and Vice Versa | 273 |
Acknowledgments | 293 |
Laurel Speer | 295 |
Patricia Wilcox ThreePart Invention for Celan 239 | 296 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | 299 |
Index of Authors and Translators | 309 |
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