Gertrude Stein and Elisa Gabbert

In my last post, I compared H.D. and Elisa Gabbert as two poets on opposite sides of the women's movement that are similar in content but dissimilar in form. Now I'd like to compare Gertrude Stein and Elisa Gabbert in a similar way. Gertrude Stein wrote poems that have a semi-traditional layout on the page, but she also wrote a major poem in an unorthodox form: "Patriarchal Poetry".
"Patriarchal Poetry" is about 20 pages of prose poetry. It has sections of line breaks that seem like traditional poetry, but much of it is just prose in paragraphs. She also breaks from the norm when she writes whole paragraphs consisting almost completely of a repetition of 3 or 4 words. The whole poem seems to be in form and content an attempt to break from all poetry that has come before it, which Stein would allege is patriarchal poetry. She breaks in content with the avant-garde nature of feminism in her time and content in almost every way. Though much less surprising in the 2010s, Elisa Gabbert attempts to do a similar thing as Stein. She writes about feminism, gender roles, and the self, all subjects that are still controversial, though much more common than in the early 1900s. One example of this is a poem where she says, "as the women's movement progresses, women report less happiness...Most people choose power over happiness" (The Self Unstable 26). Her form is also orthodox, as she has no titles or line breaks in her poetry.
Elisa Gabbert is certainly in conversation with H.D. and Stein, whether she knows it or not, and in many ways follows in their footsteps.