1. AsNelsonnotes, Notley's ironizing of the male anxiety-of-influence convention in her 1970s-80s work also marks an alternative to“its inverse, the woman-centered call to matriarchal ‘re-vision’set forth by Rich in her influential 1971 essay‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’”(Nelson139). Notley's “longstanding belief that cross-gender identification is a central aspect of being a poet” is central to the Williams essay.