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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
by Caroline Kennedy
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on... (read more)

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Poems from the Women's Movement
Poems from the Women's Movement
by Honor Moore
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THE WOMEN?S MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s, 70s, AND 80s generated an extraordinary outpouring of poetry that captured an age of expectancy, of defiant purpose, and exuberant exploration. Here, brought together for the first time, are the poems that gave voice to... (read more)

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Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (American Poets in the 21st Century)
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (American Poets in the 21st Century)
by Claudia Rankine
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Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of... (read more)

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The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Mid: A Bilingual Anthology (Defiant Muse)
The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Mid: A Bilingual Anthology (Defiant Muse)
by Angel Flores
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Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Museseries includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling.Reflecting their own... (read more)

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Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework
Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework
by Pamela Gemin
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Thankless, mundane, and “never done,” housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its... (read more)

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Mothers and Daughters
Mothers and Daughters
by June (edt) Cotner
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Celebrate the life passages shared only between mothers and daughters in this uniquely moving collection. Mothers and Daughters reveals the full breadth and depth of the mother-daughter bond as only poetry can. From pregnancy to toddlerhood, adolescence... (read more)

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Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
by Aliki Barnstone
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A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This... (read more)

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A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women's Poetry
A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women's Poetry
by Margarita Donnelly
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Poetry. Twenty-five years' prize-winning poetry selected from CALYX JOURNAL, this outstanding collection presents a diversity of poets who illuminate a poetic tradition in women's literature that was submerged during much of the 20th-century. Here women... (read more)

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Beloved Community: the Sisterhood of Homeless Women in Poetry
Beloved Community: the Sisterhood of Homeless Women in Poetry
by The Women Of Wheel
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Poetry. Whit Press and W.H.E.E.L., (the Women's Housing and Equality and Enhancement League) have collaborated to publish a poetry anthology featuring the writing of homeless and formerly homeless women of King County. All royalties, and in most cases... (read more)

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One Hundred Great Poems by Women
One Hundred Great Poems by Women
by Carolyn Kizer
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Anonymous(15th century, British)"from The Flower and the Leaf" And as I sat, the briddes herkning thus, Me thought that I herd voices sodainly, The most sweetest and most delicious That ever any wight, I trow trewly, Herde in his lyf, for (that) the... (read more)

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After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (Facing Pages)
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (Facing Pages)
by Eavan Boland
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They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of... (read more)

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Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry
Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry
by Marilyn Sewell
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These offerings, many by internationally known poets, others appearing here for the first time in book form, reveal the healing power of human connection. Women grow up and grow old, defy conventions and limits, fall in love and out again, wonder at... (read more)

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Companions for the Journey #16: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women
Companions for the Journey #16: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women
by Carolyne Wright
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How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart and mind through their struggles for equality, opportunity, and recognition in a changing society. The... (read more)

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Romantic Women Poets, 1770-1838
Romantic Women Poets, 1770-1838
by Andrew Ashfield
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Over 180 poems from 34 women poets, including Anna Seward, Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Helen maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Robinson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and many more.... (read more)

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No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Newly Revised and Expanded
No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Newly Revised and Expanded
by Florence Howe
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A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove.... (read more)

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Victorian Women Poets (Blackwell Anthologies)
Victorian Women Poets (Blackwell Anthologies)
by Angela Leighton
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This reader contains 17 new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets. Among those discussed directly are: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Michael Field, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide... (read more)

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Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, & Desire
Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, & Desire
by Emma Donoghue
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With poems in English by over one hundred female poets — American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian — this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships,... (read more)

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Ain't I a Woman! a Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
Ain't I a Woman! a Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
by Illona Linthwaite
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Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the... (read more)

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Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry
Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry
by Ali Gaspar De Alba
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This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with... (read more)

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Tangled Vines: a Collection of Mother and Daughter Poems
Tangled Vines: a Collection of Mother and Daughter Poems
by Lyn Lifshin
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No relationship in a woman's life encompasses the same joy and anger as that between mother and daughter. Lifshin has gathered poems from some of the finest women writers, including Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and... (read more)

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