Resumen de Breaking from Tradition Experimental Poems by Four Contemporary Asian American Womwn Poets
This paper examines the themes and technical strategies in the experimental poems by three 20th-Century Asian American women poets —Cathy Song, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Kimiko Hahn— through close reading. While challenging Bloom’s theory of “poetic influence” and Anglo-American feminist theories for constructing an alternative tradition of women writers, my analysis considers the importance of the subject positionalities of gender, race, and ethnicity in shaping the poetics of Asian American women poets.
