"This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in U.S.-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades...

"This series explores the lives of well-known writers, who often struggled with the perceptions created by their sexual preference. Considered by some the poet laureate of radical feminism, Rich has won numerous awards and fellowships in her distinguished career as a poet"--Amazon.com.