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This conference session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (Montreal; April 7-11, 2010) takes up discussion of Mary Oliver who has published 19 collections, received the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and, by some accounts, is one of America’s best-selling and most read poets (see Poetry Foundation). Yet, there is only full book of criticism currently published on her work. Why? What readings of Oliver are we missing? What place does she hold in American letters? What might an ecocritical/ecofeminist reading of Oliver reveal? What influence has she had on American poetics, if any? Is she simply a “nature” poet or does her work expand beyond nature? What draws readers to her writings?
Deadline for 500-word abstract proposals: September 30, 2009
Please include with your abstract:
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A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
Send abstracts as word document attachments to Jen Riley: jen.riley@umassd.edu
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