Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology - Tapa dura

"Reintroducing the early 20th century through the poetry of 16 women--some famous, some nearly unknown--coeditors Hass (a former U.S. Poet Laureate) and Ebenkamp have produced that rare, valuable thing: a volume that could be at once a resource for educators, and a fine entrée for the general reader. The great women of modernism--Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore--are hardly news, but they are rarely encountered together in such concentration. Hass's substantial afterword doubles as a terrific introduction to modernism in general; the poet C. D. Wright contributes a briefer foreword, and well-chosen prose concludes the whole."
Publishers Weekly

"The poems collected in Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology are diverse, but they are linked, too. Each seems to gaze directly and speak indirectly -- or sometimes vice-versa -- in that quintessentially modernist mode, even as the particulars of intention and expression are distinct and individual. [...] How inspiring and heartening it is to read their daring attempts to do something entirely new with language, undertaken both in seriousness and wild play." --Bookslut

"[Robert] Hass has significantly broadened the role of poet laureate to include not only his love for poetry but also his concern for literacy and his passion for environmentalism."--Los Angeles Times

"No Practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass."--The Atlantic Monthly

A comprehensive anthology of poetry by leading 20th-century women poets is complemented by detailed annotations and includes deconstructions of the works of such individuals as Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge and Amy Lowell.