Queer poetics: five modernist women writers

Introduction: lesbian theory in poetry

Poltergeist of form: Emily Dickinson and the reappropriation of language and identity

Imagery and invisibility: Amy Lowell and the erotics of particularity

"This shows it all": Gertrude Stein and the reader's role in the creation of significance

Rhythms of experience: Mina Loy and the poetics of "love"

"Dropping crooked into rhyme": Djuna Barnes' use of form and the liminal space of gender

"A curious secret": H.D. and the palimpsest of sexual identity.