Impertinent Voices : Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women's Poetry (Paperback)

Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Re-visionary Task, Part I: Rethinking Womankind, 1. A Song Out of Silence, 2. The Poet as Witness: Im/pertinence, Fidelity, Respect, 3. Unsettling Rational Violence: Susan Griffin’s Holistic ‘Knowing’, Part II: Constructing Myths of the Self, 4. Identity and Crisis: Sylvia Plath’s Quest for Integrity, 5. ‘What Girl Ever Flourished in Such Company?’, 6. Seductive Scenarios: Fighting Back, 7. Re-Creating ‘My Own Legend’: H. D.’s Helen in Egypt, Part III: Writing the Body: Desire and the M/Other-text, 8. On the Need To Go To the Sources, 9. Mother, Daughter, Sister, Lover: Adrienne Rich’s Dream of a Whole New Poetry, Part IV: Primary Intensities: Lesbian Poetry and the Reading of Difference, 10. Validating the Lesbian Body, 11. ‘Within the Fold of Purple: ‘H. D.’s Argument with Freud, 12. ‘God Claps and Claps/Her One Hand’, Conclusion, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index