In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie
examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers--Gertrude
Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich--investigating the ways
in which each attempts to forge a poetic voice capable of
expressing both public concerns and private interests. Although
Stein, Bishop, and Rich differ by generation, poetic style, and
relationship to audience, all three are twentieth-century lesbian
poets who struggle with the revelatory nature of language. All
three, argues Dickie, use language to express and to conceal their
experiences as they struggle with a censorship that was both
culturally sanctioned and self-imposed. Dickie explores how each
poet negotiates successfully and variously with the need for
secrecy and the desire for openness.
By analyzing each poet's work in light of the shared themes of
love, war, and place, Dickie makes visible a continuity of
interests between these three rarely linked women. In their very
diversity of style and strategy, she argues, lies a triumph of the
creative imagination, a victory of poetry over polemic.
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