Contents
Prologue: Coming to Light
Diane Wood Middlebrook 1
The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Mythmaking
Alicia Ostriker 10
The New Poetry and the New Woman: Mina Loy
Carolyn Burke 37
To Have the Winning Language: Texts and Contexts of Gertrude Stein
Ulla E. Dydo 58
H.D.: Hilda in Egypt
Albert Gelpi 74
"My Scourge, My Sister": Louise Bogan's Muse
Mary DeShazer 92
Trial Balances: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore
David Kalstone 105
At Home with Loss: Elizabeth Bishop and the American Sublime
Joanne Feit Diehl 123
Poetry and Political Experience: Denise Levertov
John Felstiner 138
In Yeats's House: The Death and Resurrection of Sylvia Plath
Sandra M. Gilbert 145
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, and Related Poems
Marilyn Yalom 167
Sylvia Plath's Baby Book
Barbara Antonina Clarke Mossberg 182
"I Tapped My Own Head": The Apprenticeship of Anne Sexton
Diane Wood Middlebrook 195
Lucille Clifton: A Changing Voice for Changing Times
Andrea Benton Rushing 214
Answering the Deer: Genocide and Continuance in American Indian Women's Poetry
Paula Gunn Allen 223
"I Go where I Love": An Intertextual Study of H.D. and Adrienne Rich
Susan Stanford Friedman 233
Epilogue: Philomela's Loom
Patricia Klindienst Joplin 254
Contributors 269
