Forms of Expansion

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pushing the Limits of Genre and Gender: Women's Long Poems as Forms of Expansion
1: "To Remember / Our Dis-membered Parts": Sharon Doubiago and the Complementary Woman's Epic
2: "Helen, Your Strength / Is in Your Memory": Judy Grahn's Lesbian Warriors and Gynocentric Tales of the Tribe
3: Sequences Testifying for "Nobodies": Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman
4: Measured Feet "in Gender-Bender Shoes": Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
5: "The Silences Are Equal to the Sounds": Documentary History and Susan Howe's "The Liberties"
6: Grand Collage "Out of Bounds": Feminist Serial Poems by Beverly Dahlen and Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Conclusion: This Genre Which Is Not One: A Short Wrap-up on Long Poems by Women
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