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This 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 enabling poetic tradition. In the process, each woman's negotiations with poetic authority and tradition call into question the relationship of poetic father and daughter. Positioning Williams in relation to these three generations of Anglo-American writing within and descending from the modernist movement, the book pursues two questions: what can women poets, writing with an informed awareness of Williams teach us about his modernist poetics of contact, and just as importantly, what can they teach us about the process, for women, of constructing a writing self within a male-dominated tradition?

Authority in literature --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Gezag in de literatuur --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Invloed (Literaire, artistieke, enz.) --- American poetry --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Poésie américaine --- Féminisme et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Fraser, Kathleen, --- Levertov, Denise, --- Loy, Mina --- Williams, William Carlos, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Influence --- Poésie américaine --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Féminisme et littérature --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Femmes et littérature --- United States --- 20th century --- Fraser, Kathleen --- Levertov, Denise --- Williams, William Carlos --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Feminist poetry, American --- Authority in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lowry, Mina Gertrude --- וויליאמס, וויליאם קרלוס, --- ויליאמס, ויליאם קרלוס, --- Ṿiliʼams, Ṿiliʼam Ḳarlos, --- Levertoff, Denise, --- Goodman, Denise Levertov, --- AMERICAN POETRY --- FEMINISM AND LITERATURE --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- FRASER (KATHLEEN), 1937 --- -LEVERTOV (DENISE), 1923 --- -WILLIAMS (WILLIAM CARLOS), 1883-1963 --- LOY (MINA) --- INFLUENCE (LITERARY, ARTISTIC, ETC.) --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- 20th CENTURY --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- U.S. --- HISTORY --- 20TH CENTURY --- CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION