Table of Contents:
  • Unappeasable and arrogant: women and the faces of death / María dolores Bolívar
  • Rites/Rights of canonization: Andre Lorde as icon / Anna Wilson
  • "The muse as fluffball": Margaret Atwood and the poetry of the intelligent woman / Martine Watson Brownley
  • Infectious ecstasy: toward a poetics of performative transformation / Cynthia Hogue
  • Siting the poet: Rita Dove's refiguring of traditions / Susan R. Van Dyne
  • Elizabeth Bishop: war, love, race, and class / Margaret Dickie
  • Rethinking the "eyes" of Chicana Poetry, or, reading the multiple centers of Chicana poetics / Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
  • Formalism, feminism, and genre slipping in the poetic writings of Leslie Scalapino / Laura Hinton
  • Lyn Hejinian and the possibilities of postmodernism in poetry / Charles Altieri
  • Reimagining "Empire's westward course": Amy Clampitt's A Silence Opens / Celeste Goodridge
  • Bishop in Brazil: writing the un-renamable / Susan McCabe
  • Family values and the Jewishness of Linda Pastan's poetic vision / Sanford Pinsker
  • Castings for a (new) new world: the poetry of Joy Harjo / Janet McAdams
  • Mixing it up in M. Nourbese Philip's poetic recipes / Cristanne Miller
  • Kozmic reappraisals: revising California insularity / Maria Damon.