American Women Poets and Their Tradition

FAIN: FB-13262-77

Cheryl Lawson Walker
Scripps College (Claremont, CA 91711-3948)

To continue writing a book on American women poets which suggest that there is a tradition for American women poets against which the experimentalists rebelled. It is a tradition based upon repeated themes such as the sanctuary motif (the longing for a safe, enclosed space) and also upon an attitude toward experience which is profoundly ambivalent, vacillating between unappeasable longing and renunciation.