"This very strong collection of essays will do a great deal to make readers turn again to Amy Lowell."Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"More that a century after Lowell's birth, we can hear her making poetry new. Her spirit lives in these essays."Shari Benstock, author of Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 19001940

For decades, the work of one of Americas most influential poets, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner Amy Lowell (18741925), has been largely overlooked. Cigar-smoker, Boston Brahmin, lesbian, impresario, entrepreneur, wildly popular lecturer, and best-selling poet, Lowell gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility. She was a respected authority on modern poetry, forging the path that led to the works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Yet, since her death, her work has suffered critical neglect.

This volume presents the most sustained examination of this prolific poet to date. Essays by a transatlantic group of literary critics and scholars explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist, and a significant force behind the literary debates of early twentieth-century poetics. In addition to placing Lowell in her proper historical context, contributors demonstrate her centrality to current critical and theoretical discussions. Amy Lowell, American Modern returns this influential poet to conversation and to literary history¾ where she belongs.

Adrienne Munich is a professor of English at SUNYStony Brook. Among her books are Remaking Queen Victoria, Queen Victorias Secrets, Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art, and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. Melissa Bradshaw is an assistant professor of humanities at Barat College of DePaul University. She is the co-editor with Adrienne Munich of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell.

• Melissa Bradshaw
• Elizabeth J. Donaldson
• Lillian Faderman
• Margaret Homans
• Jaime Hovey
• Paul Lauter
• Jayne E. Marek
• Adrienne Munich
• Jean Radford
• Bonnie Kime Scott
• Andrew Thacker
• Mari Yoshihara