A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

Linda A. Kinnahan (Edited by)

9781107137561, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 June 2016

442 pages, 11 b/w illus.
23.7 x 16.2 x 3 cm, 0.78 kg

'A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry is a clearly written, approachable selection of current scholarship in the field of twentieth-century American women's poetry. It is an essential purchase for university libraries contemporary American poetry.' Linda Kemp, Languages and Literature

A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of American women poets. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Edna St Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of feminist literary criticism. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of women's poetry in America and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

1. Critical mapping I: the category of 'woman poet': an introduction, by way of mapping Linda Kinnahan
2. Critical mapping II: reading American poetry by women Rachel Blau DuPlessis
3. Chronology I: American women poets, 1900–50 Cristanne Miller
4. Chronology II: American women poets, 1950–2000 Jeanne Heuving
5. Native American women poets Jennifer Andrews
6. Asian American women poets Juliana Chang
7. Chicana/Latina women poets Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
8. African American women poets Emily R. Rutter
9. Jewish American women poets Kathryn Hellerstein
10. The world split open: feminism, poetry, and social critique Nancy Berke
11. Little magazines and the gendered, racialized discourse of women's poetry Suzanne W. Churchill
12. The WP network: anthologies and affiliations in contemporary American women's poetry Marsha Bryant
13. High, low, and somewhere in-between: women's poetry and popular culture in modern America Michael Chasar
14. 'At the edge of what we know': gender and environment in American poetry Margaret Ronda
15. Token women, male movements, and literary history's feminist shadow Elizabeth Savage
16. Lineages and legacies: real and imagined Deborah M. Mix
17. Crossing geographies, crossing languages Ann Vickery
18. Women's 'spiritualities' Romana Huk
19. Forgiving the sonnet: modernist women's love poetry and the problem of sentimentality Melissa Girard
20. The 'do it yourself' avant-garde: American women poets and experiment Susan Rosenbaum
21. Visual poetics Elisabeth A. Frost
22. Poetry and technology Alex Goody
23. Post-millennial women's poetry Lisa Sewell.

Subject Areas: Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]