This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.

Autorentext
NICKY MARSH works in English at the University of Southampton and is the Director of Southampton's Centre for Contemporary Writing, UK.

Inhalt
Becoming Public Paper Money and Tender Acts: Feminism and Democracy The Poetics of Privacy: Writing the Lyric Self Against the Outside: The Publics of Language Poetry Go Grrrl: Democracy and Counter Culture Romantic Materialism and Emerging Poets