Kathleen Fraser (1935- )

A selective list of online literary criticism for Kathleen Fraser, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Pages

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Literary criticism

Alexander, Charles. A review of Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity. Rain Taxi, Spring 2001.

Camboni, Marina, ed. A review of H.D.'s Poetry: 'The meanings that words hide' (AMS Press. 2003), which includes "The Blank Page: H.D.'s Invitation to Trust and Mistrust Language" by Kathleen Fraser. Reviewed in The Modern Language Review, Jan. 2006, by Victoria Bazin.

Hogue, Cynthia. "An Interview with Kathleen Fraser." Contemporary Literature, Spring 1998; 39 (1): 1-26.

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik, ed. A review of H.D. and Poets After (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). Includes the articles "The Blank Page: H. D.'s Invitation to Trust and Mistrust Language" by Kathleen Fraser, and "'I Am Not of That Feather': Kathleen Fraser's Postmodernist Poetics," by Cynthia Hogue. Reviewed in The Modern Language Review, July 2002, by Victoria Bazin.

Keller, Lynn. 'Just One of / the Girls:- / Normal in the Extreme': Experimentalists-to-Be Starting Out in the 1960s. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 2001 Summer; 12 (2): 47-69.

Kinnahan, Linda Arbaugh. "Lyric Discourse, the Arts, and the Avant-Garde: Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser in the Sixties," in Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004). At Google Books. Publisher's site.

Kinnahan, Linda Arbaugh. "Feminist Experimentalism, Literary History, and Subjectivity: 'This Lyric Forever Error' of Kathleen Fraser and Denise Riley" in Assembling alternatives: reading postmodern poetries transnationally (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2003) by Romana Huk. At Google Books.

McElhiney, Annette Bennington. 'Windows' and/or 'Mirrors' in the Creation of Sexual/Personal Identity through Multicultural Women's Poetry. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 2000; 54 (1): 41-51.

Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser are interviewed. Jacket Magazine 25, February 2004.

A list of 14 articles by or about Kathleen Fraser that are available online, that appeared in the outstanding online publication Jacket Magazine, edited by John Tranter.

Kathleen Fraser's author page at the Electronic Poetry Center contains poems and essays by her, an interview, and essays about her works by others.

A biography of Kathleen Fraser from the Dia Center for the Arts

Archives for HOW(ever). Kathleen Fraser launched HOW(ever) in 1983 as a journal for experimental women's poetry. "HOW(ever) proposes to make a bridge between scholars thinking about women's language issues, vis-a-vis the making of poetry, and the women making those poems. HOW(ever) hopes to create a place in which poets can talk to scholars through poems and working notes on those poems, as well as through commentary on neglected women poets who were/are making textures and structures of poetry in the tentative region of the untried."

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