Linda Kinnahan is Professor of English and Hillman Distinguished Chair at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Her publications on American and British poetry include Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser (Cambridge, 1994) and Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse.