{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-muse-the-poetry-and-poetics-of-rhina-p-espaillat-paperback","title":"The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Kang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2021 SSAWW Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Muse\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Kang\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of multicultural and diaspora literatures at the University of Baltimore. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilvio Torres-Saillant\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Poetics; Introduction to Dominican Blackness;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Intellectual History of the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130233360519,"sku":"9780822965428","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2988838f919c065e017ee2ad96289aa8.webp?v=1732609429","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-muse-the-poetry-and-poetics-of-rhina-p-espaillat-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}