Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology, and the Case of Lyn Hejinian
"A space that has opened": Gender and Language
Language-Oriented Feminist Epistemology
"Night Knowledge": Lyn Hejinian's Faustienne Poetics
2. "Come, words, away": Modernist Women's Invitations to Innovation
Laura Riding's Lifelong Project with Language
Inside Language as Language with Gertude Stein
"From stepping-stone to stone of creative explorations": Mina Loy's Deconstruction of Femininity
Slipping the Knot of Language: Realism and Indeterminacy for H.D.
3. Subjects of Knowledge: Processing Gender and Sexuality
Beverly Dahlen
Lori Lubeski
Laura Moriarty
4. Feminist Phenomenologies: Language as the Horizon of Encounter
Leslie Scalapino
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Carla Harryman
5. "Cries open to the words inside them": Textual Truth and Historical Materialism in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Interventions in History: Recovering the Feminine
Intertextuality and the Material Word
The "Visible surface of Discourse"
A Poetics of Encounter
Notes
Works Cited
Index