Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-178) and index.
Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of Biblical Revision and Contemporary Women's Poetry -- Ch. 1. "'Faith' Is a Fine Invention": Emily Dickinson and H.D. -- Ch. 2. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense": The Biblical Revision of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath -- Ch. 3. Writing Home: The Bible and Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon -- Conclusion: Last Words: Feminist Biblical Revision and Authority