The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry offers a historical and theoretical account of avant-garde women poets in America from the 1910s through the 1990s. Elisabeth Frost focuses on a diverse group of poets - Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, and Harryette Mullen - who make language the site of feminist politics. Her study captures the range of aesthetics and politics in the work of avant-garde women poets; challenges the ways in which avant-garde writing has been defined and categorized; expands traditional conceptions of feminism and feminist poetics; and addresses issues of gender and race, allowing for discussion of a rich range of feminist and linguistic concerns.
- ISBN13 9780877459293
- Publish Date 25 February 2005 (first published 5 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Iowa Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 274
- Language English