Carol Shields in “A View from the Edge of the Edge.” Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary: Women writers often seem willing to engage with vulnerability, including themselves in that vulnerability. As a woman who has elected a writing life, I

Rachel Blau DuPlessis in The Pink Guitar: The feminine is where I am colonized. The feminine is the dream of an elsewhere, a someplace uncolonized. The feminine is orange/blush/pink/peach/vibrant red “in” this year. The feminine is a short blue one,