Essays
Excerpts from a Journal: July 1989
My Introduction to Katherine Anne Porter
Powerful Red Dogs: Excerpts from a Painter’s Studio Notes (
Fiction
How Do You Do, Mister Cat
No Evidence Has Been Found
Poetry
A Dialectic for Spring Quarter
Built with the Same Beauty
Conversation with Isadora Duncan
For Wiley, Age Six Months
From the Front Door: to the Mailbox and Back
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
In Which I Forgive My Mother Her Intentions
Painting No. 21 (Palo Duro Canyon), 1916
To the One Lost on the Other Side
Visiting Flannery O’Connor’s Grave
Watching Great-Grandma Bean Undress
Reviews
A Want Ad (on Parties by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan; Where the World Is by Janet Kauffman; Green the Witch-hazel Wood by Emily Hiestand; Waving from Shore by Lisel Mueller; & Grace Notes by Rita Dove)
Achieving Women (on Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism by Polly Wynn Allen; Ellen Glasgow’s Reasonable Doubts: A Collection of Her Writings by Julius Rowan Raper; & Gender, Race, and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart, And Kate Chopin by Helen Taylor)
Ambiguous Womeriy Unwomanly Ambitions (on Life/lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck; The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women’s Autobiographical Writings by Shari Benstock; & Writing a Woman’s Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun)
Challenging the Hierarchies (on Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine by Naomi Schor; The Pirate’s Fiancee: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism by Meaghan Morris; & The Feminist Spectator as Critic by Jill Dolan and Ann Arbor)
on All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America by Frances B. Cogan
on Herself Beheld: The Literature of the Looking Glass by Jenijoy La Belle
on Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media by Rosemary Betterton
on Reading in America: Literature and Social History by Cathy N. Davidson
on Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ludmilla Jordanova
on The Sisters’ Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by Diane Filby Gillespie
on The World, the Flesh, and Angels by Mary B. Campbell
on Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces by Catharine R. Stimpson
on Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women’s Writing by Ailbhe Smyth
Some Recent Herstories (on Obscene Gestures for Women by Janet Kauffman; After You’ve Gone by Alice Adams; Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle by Ellen Gilchrist; Confessions of a Bad Girl by Bette Pesetsky; & The Women Who Walk by Nancy Huddleston Packer)
Unfinished Lives of Sylvia Plath (on Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin & Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson)
