{"product_id":"hysterical-water-poems-9780820359007","title":"Hysterical Water: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHysterical Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of fierce, funny, feminist poems, prose poems, and essays with poems woven through them, all connected by threads associated with female \"hysteria\" and motherhood. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh troubles the historic pseudodiagnostic term \u003ci\u003ehysteria \u003c\/i\u003eas both a constraining mode used to contain and silence women and as a mode that oddly freed women to behave outside the bounds of social norms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this collection question the way maternal thinking, sexuality, affect, and creativity have been dismissed as hysterical. Saltmarsh reclaims the word \u003ci\u003ehysteria\u003c\/i\u003e by arguing that women poets might, in art as in life, celebrate incongruous emotional experiences. Drawing on and reshaping an intriguing array of source materials, Saltmarsh borrows from the language of uncontrollable emotion, excess, cure, remedy, and cult-like obsession to give shape not only to the maternal body but also to a hysterical textual one. She revisits selective silence and selective speech in everyday crises of feelings, engages meaningful \"anticommunication\" through odd gestures and symbols, and indulges in nonsensical dream-speak, among other tactics, to carve a feminist poetics of madness out of the masculinist discourse that has located in the woman the hysteric.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaltmarsh, Hannah Baker:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - HANNAH BAKER SALTMARSH is poet, essayist, and educator. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMale Poets and the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgon of the Mother: Contexts in Confessional and Post-Confessional Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePacific Coast Philology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForum for Modern Language Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and others.","brand":"Georgia Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860628377874,"sku":"9780820359007","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6365423a-b8f7-495f-9368-5892adca4c27.jpg?v=1737579690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hysterical-water-poems-9780820359007","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}