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Tables of Contents for By Herself
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
6
Molly McQuade
``It's a Woman's Prerogative to Change Her Mind''
9
24
Elizabeth Macklin
I. Writing Their Lives
Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
33
28
Adrienne Rich
The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley
61
13
June Jordan
Being a Dragon: On Marianne Moore
74
8
Cynthia Zarin
My Plath Problem
82
21
April Bernard
``Either I'm Nobody, or I'm a Nation''
103
29
Rita Dove
Edwin Muir and the Primal World
132
25
Mary Kinzie
II. A Poet's Tools: ``The Incredible Difficulty of Saying Something True''
A Meditation on Metaphor
157
6
Alicia Ostriker
Some Notes on Silence
163
9
Jorie Graham
A Cadenced Privacy
172
15
Brenda Hillman
Use This Word in a Sentence: Experimental
187
5
Ann Lauterbach
Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties
192
4
Lucie Brock-Broido
A Genuine Article
196
17
Heather McHugh
III. Critical Panoramas
Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess
213
13
Annie Finch
Playing the Changes
226
26
Eleanor Wilner
La Faustienne
252
25
Lyn Hejinian
Xio's Soakbook: Criticism Takes a Bath
277
17
S. X. Rosenstock
Against Decoration
294
23
Mary Karr
Poetry, Mattering?
317
14
Susan Wheeler
IV. Reading Her Mind: Creeds and Memoirs
Letter to a Young Woman Poet
331
14
Eavan Boland
A Student's Memoir of Muriel Rukeyser
345
19
Sharon Olds
Poetry Is Not a Luxury
364
4
Audre Lorde
Meditations on ``Mecca'': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Responsibilities of the Black Poet
368
12
Elizabeth Alexander
69 Hidebound Opinions, Propositions, and Several Asides from a Manila Folder Concerning the Stuff of Poetry
380
18
C. D. Wright
Short Survey of Scruples
398
5
Molly McQuade
On Being Unable to Read
403
Valerie Cornell