Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers
Galvin provides a critical look at the intersections between the development of queer consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D., one that places them in a continuum of non-heterocentric existence. While these writers were non-heterocentric in their personal identities, they were also all innovators of modernist poetics. For lesbians and other non-heterocentrically defined writers, the active creation of...
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A critical look at the intersections between the development of "queer" consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D.BooknewsAfter explaining Lesbian Theory in poetry, Galvin (literature, writing, and women's studies, State U. of New York-Albany) looks at Emily Dickinson and reappropriating language and identity, Amy Lowell and the erotics of particularity, Gertrude Stein and the readers role in creating experience, Mina Loy and the poetics of love, Djuna Barnes' use of form and the liminal space of gender, and H.D. and the palimpsest of sexual identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface: RememberingAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lesbian Theory in Poetry11Poltergeist of Form: Emily Dickinson and the Reappropriation of Language and Identity112Imagery and Invisibility: Amy Lowell and The Erotics of Particularity213"This shows it all": Gertrude Stein and the Reader's Role in the Creation of Significance374The Rhythms of Experience: Mina Loy and the Poetics of "Love"515"Dropping Crooked into Rhyme": Djuna Barnes' Use of Form and the Liminal Space of Gender836"A curious secret": H.D. and the Palimpsest of Sexual Identity105Afterword127Works Cited and Consulted133Index139
\ BooknewsAfter explaining Lesbian Theory in poetry, Galvin (literature, writing, and women's studies, State U. of New York-Albany) looks at Emily Dickinson and reappropriating language and identity, Amy Lowell and the erotics of particularity, Gertrude Stein and the readers role in creating experience, Mina Loy and the poetics of love, Djuna Barnes' use of form and the liminal space of gender, and H.D. and the palimpsest of sexual identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
