Gendered Modernisms : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection : 9780812233124 : 0812233123 : 22 Feb 1996 : This essay collection reexamines the work of eight modern American women poets: Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Although each is well known, they uniformly maintained positions outside the modernist canon by choice and exclusion. Rereading modernism including these women's poetry engenders a new complexity, the movement emerging as far more sexy, violent, personal, and subversive than non-gendered studies lead the reader to believe. The contributors to this volume seek to understand these complexities in relationship to: readers, literary society, history, sexuality, gender, politics, modernism, and postmodernism. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.