Dr. Linda A. Kinnahan, professor and chair of English, has just published “Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse” with the University of Iowa Press.
In the book, Kinnahan explores linguistically innovative poetry by contemporary female poets in North America and England, such as Barbara Guest, Kathleen Fraser and Wendy Mulford, whose experiments give rise to fresh feminist readings of the lyric subject. The piece is, according to one critic, “essential reading for the study of contemporary British and American poetry.”
Kinnahan teaches American literature, twentieth-century poetry and feminist studies. She is the author of “Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser” from Cambridge University Press and “Feminist Experiemental Poetics in America and England,” from Wesleyan University Press. |
