"Contents originally appeared in spring issue of River city, published at Memphis State University"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 27).
Contents:
Degree and circumstance / Pattiann Rogers -- The persistence of tradition / Grace Schulman -- Some observations on women and tradition / Anne Stevenson -- Terrible perfection : in the face of tradition / Deborah Tall. Subterranean maps : a poet's cartography / Wendy Battin -- Outside history / Eavan Boland -- Lasting the night / Amy Clampitt -- Reclaiming the oh / Martha Collins -- Figures in the looking-glass : tradition, gender bias, and the talented woman / Madeline DeFrees -- The tradition of marginality / Kathleen Fraser -- The new new poetry handbook / Debora Greger -- Writing with the sun / Joy Harjo -- The automatic woman / Gwen Head -- Dark turtles and bright turtles / Brenda Hillman -- Robert Jimmy Allen / Judith Kitchen -- Breaking the mold / Maxine Kumin -- Mosaic law : the bits and pieces from which one woman's poems are made / Cynthia Macdonald -- On reclaiming "the universal" / Suzanne Matson -- If we look for them by moonlight / Collen J. McElroy -- Parentage and good luck / Lisel Mueller -- Revising the future / Carol Muske -- The road of excess : my William Blake / Alicia Ostriker.
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