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Queer Poetics, Vol. 161 »

Authors: Mary E. Galvin
ISBN-13: 9780313298103, ISBN-10: 0313298106
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Mary E. Galvin

MARY E. GALVIN has been teaching literature, writing, and women's studies at the State University of New York, Albany, for the past nine years.

Book Synopsis

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.

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After 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: Remembering
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Lesbian Theory in Poetry	1
1	Poltergeist of Form: Emily Dickinson and the Reappropriation of Language and Identity	11
2	Imagery and Invisibility: Amy Lowell and The Erotics of Particularity	21
3	"This shows it all": Gertrude Stein and the Reader's Role in the Creation of Significance	37
4	The Rhythms of Experience: Mina Loy and the Poetics of "Love"	51
5	"Dropping Crooked into Rhyme": Djuna Barnes' Use of Form and the Liminal Space of Gender	83
6	"A curious secret": H.D. and the Palimpsest of Sexual Identity	105
	Afterword	127
	Works Cited and Consulted	133
	Index	139

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