differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from June 2001

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from June 2001

After Patriarchal Poetry: Feminism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde. Introductory Note.
June 22, 2001... After Patriarchal Poetry. I defy any one to turn a better heel than that while reading. (Stein 141) The terms most centrally at stake in this special issue of differences -- contemporary poetry, feminism, avant-gardism,...

Bad Timing (A Sequel). Paranoia, Feminism, and Poetry.
June 22, 2001... woman is the screen vulnerability and -ieties, women have humiliated mem- -ation are the lot male reference (Ward, "Imaginary Movie, Imaginary Movie) these are things people can do to themselves ...

"Just one of / the girls:- / normal in the extreme": Experimentalists-To-Be Starting Out in the 1960s.
June 22, 2001... The poets whose early careers I will be considering here, Kathleen Fraser, Fanny Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop, belong to what I will call an in-between generation. That is, they were born too late to be published in Donald Allen's New American...

Delirium and Desire in Nicole Brossard's Le Desert Mauve/Mauve Desert.(Column)
June 22, 2001... "le ravissement" dit L. pour saisir le sens d'une experience mentale ou fragments et delire de l'eclat traduisent une pratique de l'emeute en soi comme une theorie de la elite JE N'ARRETE PAS DE LIRE (Brossard,...

"An Especially Peculiar Undertaking": Alice Notley's Epic.
June 22, 2001... The old has refuge only at the vanguard of the new: in the gaps, not in continuity. (Adorno, Aesthetic Theory 22) What could be more arriere-garde, trailing behind, looking backward, than an epic poem written at the end of the twentieth...

"Love Scattered, Not Concentrated Love Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets.
June 22, 2001... I Sexuality provokes anxiety when it illustrates how social institutions and norms are not necessarily natural. This was all too evident when Hawai'i had a same sex marriage law up for ballot. Sexual anxiety seemed to be everywhere: in...

Hannah=hannaH: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance in the Work of Hannah Weiner.
June 22, 2001... In August of 1972, Hannah Weiner, an accomplished and highly politicized performance artist and poet, began to receive a remarkable form of "dictation." [1] Printed words of all sizes bombarded Weiner; she saw these words in the air, on every...