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 acknowledgments ix Some of the chapters/pieces have appeared in different forms in the following periodicals and books: South Atlantic Quarterly, AWP Chronicle, College English, Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, (JPCS), After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography (Graywolf Press), MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Series: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Her and l and “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Modern Language Association), and Bright, Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference (Peter Lang Publishers). My thanks goes out to the writers and educators who have been the guardians of my words, and have generously and most graciously advised me throughout the writing of this project. Their wisdom has been immeasurable: Jeffrey Berman, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Stephen Rosenblum, Donald Hall, Mark Bracher, Marshall Alcorn, Peter Caws, Jeanne Gunner, Jonathan Hunt, Martin Gliserman, Denise Knight, Gregson Davis, Kate Sontag, David Graham, Bert Hornback, Michael S. Harper, Pam Presser, Divya Saksena, Jane Vandenburgh, Judith Plotz, Marilyn Penney, James Peltz, Marilyn Semerad, Carolyn Betensky, Connie Shade, Christopher Sten, and my husband, Walter Kravitz. ...

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