Hysterical Water Poems by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh PAPERBACK 9780820359007

Hysterical WaterPoems\nAuthor(s): Hannah Baker Saltmarsh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: Georgia Review Books\nISBN-13: 9780820359007, 978-0820359007\nSynopsis\nHysterical Water 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 hysteria as 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.\n\nThe poems in this collection question the way maternal thinking, sexuality, affect, and creativity have been dismissed as hysterical. Saltmarsh reclaims the word hysteria 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 lan.