Her family didn’t approve of women going to college so she educated herself and became drawn to poetry. She was an imagist and a modernist. She once said “God made me a business woman and made myself a poet.”
Throughout her life she was criticized for her appearance and weight. She rose above this, however, by being a cigar-smoking raging lesbian!! Most of her poetry is explicitly wlw (as in it cannot be construed as anything but queer but she did also write very erotic poetry.)