And because her way of being was broad and sweeping, extending across several continents, into geographies and local histories, and through friendships with many poets and their differently inflected aesthetics, there is no one way to talk about her work except as that of a singular individual. The ratio isn't accurate. But, as well, it sets the precedent by which we are now given to read poetry in the 'New American' vein. Because it has taught poetry-readers for decades to recognize 'the new' and because what it presents has been taken for 'the new,' as we understand it 'the new' wasn't produced by women. To this end Knight and Peabody seemingly compete to inaugurate the most obscure.
History is full of specifics.
Grove Press, 1960. Wisconsin UP, 1995. The Writer's, Artists and Muses at the Hear of Revolution. Forward by Anne Waldman, Afterward by Ann Charters. High Risk Books, 1998.