This collection revises the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by acknowledging the important contributions of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth
Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart. These female poets, critics, and writers are the real founders of Canadian modernism, contributors argue, both for
their aesthetic and literary experimentation and for their cultural activism (which included founding literary magazines and writers' groups, writing newspaper columns, and creating a new forum
for intellectual debate on public radio). Competing successfully with their male contemporaries in the public arena in an era when women were not encouraged to hold professional positions or
pursue public careers, these writers made a formidable contribution to the development of modernism in Canada. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
