many critical studies, including The Poethical Wager (2003), and a study of Gertrude Stein (2008). The editors of the anthology Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America note that Retallack is "well known for her important intervention in and contribution to feminist criticism, 'Re: Thinking: Literary: Feminism,' [in her book The Poethical Wager] in which she rejects several feminist literary models, proffering instead a multiple, unintelligible, polylingual 'experimental feminine' that can '''exercise the power of the feminine' as construct, 'aesthetic behavior' and not as the 'expression of female experience (author’s italics). She calls for a literary feminism that reflects the 'disruptively audible—if not immediately intelligible—swerve or real gender/genre trouble [that] is possible only if we recognize what has been the continual constituting of feminine forms in language.' " Awards and honors Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, 1993. Pushcart Prize in 1985 for "High Adventures of Indeterminacy." Retallack’s Errata 5uite (1993) was selected by poet Robert Creeley to receive the Columbia Book Award. Retallack received a Lannan Foundation Literary Grant in 1998–99. American Award in Belles-Lettres in 1996 for MUSICAGE: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack. National Endowment for the Arts funding for an artist’s book project—Western Civ Cont’d, An Open Book Selected publications Critical editor: Gertrude Stein: Selections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 The Poethical Wager. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 M U S I C A G E / CAGE MUSES on Words. Art. Music: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. Poetry Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d. Roof, 2010. Memnoir. The Post-Apollo Press, 2004. Memnoir. Translated into French by Omar Berrada, Emanuel Hocquard, Juliette Valéry, et al. Marseille: CipM, 2004. Steinzas en médiation. Translated by Jacques Roubaud. Bordeaux: Format Américain, 2002. MONGRELISME: A Difficult Manual for Desperate Times. Providence, Paradigm Press, 1998. How To Do Things With Words. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Classics, 1998. A F T E R R I M A G E S. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1995. Icarus FFFFFalling. Buffalo: Leave Books, 1994. Errata 5uite. Washington, DC: Edge Books, 1993. Circumstantial Evidence. Washington, DC: S.O.S. Books, 1985. Artist books WESTORN CIV CONT'D, AN OPEN BOOK. cardboard, grommets, movable images, handmade paper, collage and text. Riverdale: Pyramid Atlantic, 1995. Critical works on Retallack's writing "Silénzio / Scienza: Registering 5 in Joan Retallack’s Errata 5uite" AJ Carruthers, Cordite