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?
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