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The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry

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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 …