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Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these... read more

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Read today in the context of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land or Wallace Stevens's "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" or William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie," Gertrude Stein's "Ada," Tender Buttons, and "Lifting Belly" appear remarkably free from the anxiety, restraint, and misogyny that dominate the sexual attitudes of texts by the male modernists.

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