Forms of expansion : recent long poems by women /
Keller, Lynn,1952-
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,
1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-351) and index.
Introduction: pushing the limits of genre and gender: women's long poems as forms of expansion -- "To remember/our dis-membered parts": Sharon Doubiago and the compelementary woman's epic -- "Helen, your strength/is in your memory": Judy Grahn's Lesbian warriors and gynocentric tales of the tribe -- Sequences testifying for "Nobodies": Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate circumstance, dangerous woman -- Measured feet "in Gender-bender shoes": Marilyn Hacker's Love, death, and the changing of the seasons -- "The silences are equal to the sounds": documentary history and Susan Howe's "The Liberties" -- Grand collage "Out of bounds": feminist serial poems by Beverly Dahlen and Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Conclusion: this genre, which is not one: a short wrap-up on long poems by women.
American poetry
Women and literature
American poetry
Epic poetry, American