Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Part 1 The Daughter's Way
Introduction Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and Its (Female) Discontents 3
1 Elegy and Authority: The Daughter's Way 31
Part 2 Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job Canadian Modernism's Bloody-Minded Women
2 Jove's Daughter: Dorothy Livesay's Elegiac Daughteronomy 55
3 "So Much Militia Routed in the Man": P. K. Page's Military Fathers 77
4 "Absence, Havoc": Jay Macpherson's Rebellious Daughters 95
Part 3 Differently Conceived Nations The Mourner's Journey
5 "Do What You Are Good At": Margaret Atwood's Authorizing Elegies 127
6 The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carson's "The Anthropology of Water" 151
7 Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnars's Zero Hour 171
Part 4 Furies and Filles de la Sagesse Language and Difference at Century's End
8 Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches 187
9 Elegy of Refusal: Erin Mouré's Furious 209
Conclusion: From the Water 235
Works Cited 239
Index 255