Tanis MacDonald is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Rue the Day (Turnstone Press, 2008), and the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (WLU Press, 2006). Her book The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies was a finalist for the 2012 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism.

• The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies, by Tanis MacDonaldAcknowledgementsPart I: The Daughter's WayIntroduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) DiscontentsChapter One: Elegy and Authority: The Daughter's WayPart II: Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job: Canadian Modernism's Bloody-Minded WomenChapter Two: Two Jove's Daughter: Dorothy Livesay's Elegiac DaughteronomyChapter Three: ""So much militia routed in the man"": P.K. Page's Military FathersChapter Four: ""Absence, havoc"": Jay Macpherson's Rebellious DaughtersPart III: Differently Conceived Nations: The Mourner's JourneyChapter Five: ""Do what you are good at"": Margaret Atwood's Authorizing ElegiesChapter Six: The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carson's ""The Anthropology of Water""Chapter Seven: Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnars' Zero HourPart IV: Furies and Filles de la Sagesse: Language and Difference at Century's EndChapter Eight: Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevin's CartouchesChapter Nine: Elegy of Refusal: Erin Mouré's Furious Conclusion: From the WaterWorks CitedIndex

"The Daughter's Way is an original, absorbing, and long-overdue critical examination of the way Canadian female poets have written against the grain of the male elegiac tradition. MacDonald's scholarly conversation with these works is an important step in understanding the contrary energies of feminist remembrance." -- Sarah Henstra, Department of English, Ryerson University, author of The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction