Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary. Kinnahan Hardcover<|

Poetics of the FeminineAuthority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser\nAuthor(s): Linda A. Kinnahan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521451277, 978-0521451277\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser - three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics. The impact of first-wave American feminism is examined through an extended analysis of Mina Loy's poetry as a source of a feminist modernism for Williams. Levertov and Fraser are discussed as poetic daughters of Williams who strive to define their voices as women and to reclaim an en?