| Description |
xvi, 345 pages ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
From this we come -- Generations -- Poem in September, on my mother's birthday / Judith Sornberger -- When I feel most like her / Judith Sornberger -- I go back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds -- Where I'm from / George Ella Lyon -- On the Hovander Homestead / Joanne McCarthy -- The Grandmother songs / Linda Hogan -- to Jacqueline, age 2, in her great-grandmother's house / Kathleen Norris -- Forgiveness / Susan Terris -- Giving back the world / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Fury / Lucille Clifton -- Daughters / Lucille Clifton -- I am asking you to come back home / Jo Carson -- I stop writing the poem / Tess Gallagher -- With stars / Tess Gallagher -- The sleeping / Lynn Emanuel -- Thrall / Carolyn Kizer -- Totems: three generations / Marilyn Zuckerman -- The woman who loved worms / Colette Inez -- Pokeberries / Ruth Stone -- Final disposition / Jane Glazer -- Newborn / Mary Wenner -- Defiance -- Hair / Enid Shomer -- Sending the mare to auction / Jana Harris -- Exposure / Paulann Petersen -- Refusing silence / Tess Gallagher -- Trouble with math in a one-room country school / Jane Kenyon -- I knew I'd sing / Heather McHugh -- Knowing my name / Judith Sornberger -- Amelia Earhart rag doll / Judith Sornberger -- Pagan / Alice Walker -- The circus of levitation / Faye Scott Rieger -- Becoming a nun / Erica Jong -- The drum majorette marries at Calvary Baptist / Jane Gentry -- The necessity / Alice B. Fogel -- Taking in wash / Rita Dove -- Untitled / Ellen Bass -- How she was saved / Eileen Daly Moeller -- Jeanne d'Arc / Eileen Daly Moeller -- The right thing / Pesha Gertler -- Desperate measures / Rachel Loden -- The terms of endurance / Linda Bierds -- Crossing / Demetria Martinez -- Hawks / Lynn Ungar -- Identity -- Primer (excerpt) / Chana Bloch -- Portrait d'une Femme / Carole Stone -- A woman alone / Denise Levertov -- Variation on a theme by Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1) / Denise Levertov -- Defining it for Vanessa / Colleen McElroy -- Arms (excerpt) / Alice Derry -- Teresa of Avila / Madeline DeFrees -- The Rockettes / Deborah Digges -- Skylights / Tess Gallagher -- Naming the animals / Linda Hogan -- Consorting with angels / Anne Sexton -- Invisibility poem: lesbian / Ilze Mueller -- We all have many chances / Barbara Jordan -- Power failure / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- I was born / Anita Endrezze -- Turning / Lucille Clifton -- The daughter who sings / Anne Pitkin -- With apologies to Nancy Drew / Margaret Randall -- The stammer / Jean Nordhaus -- Daystar / Rita Dove -- All these dreams / Jane Cooper -- |
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By this we live -- The earth and her creatures -- My mother / Susan Griffin -- For a wedding on Mount Tamalpais / Jane Hirshfield -- Happiness / Jane Hirshfield -- The love of aged horses / Jane Hirshfield -- The earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- Among the cows / Enid Shomer -- The lull / Molly Peacock -- Jug Brook / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Bats / Lynn Ungar -- Demeter / Genevieve Taggard -- The summer day / Mary Oliver -- Wild geese / Mary Oliver -- The fallen / Linda Hogan -- Other, sister, twin / Linda Hogan -- Muskogee / Wendy Rose -- Prayer / Lisa Colt -- Poem / Barbara Jordan -- Credo / Maxine Kumin -- The filbert orchard / Dianne Williams Stepp -- Burdock / Jenifer Berman -- The body -- Making tortillas / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Strung / George Ella Lyon -- Surviving / Gail Tremblay -- The laundromat / Dorianne Laux -- The dieter's daughter / Anita Endrezze -- Love the human / Lucille Clifton -- Song at midnight / Lucille Clifton -- Smell / Molly Peacock -- Tits / Carol Gordon -- This part of your body / Lin Max -- Night sweat / Judy Goldman -- The lesson / Marlene Pearson -- Skin / Lucia Maria Perillo -- Christmas Eve: my mother dressing / Toi Derricotte -- To those of my sisters who kept their naturals / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Women's aerobics class / Judith Sornberger -- Eve falling / Jane McVeigh -- Simple blessings -- Little things / Sharon Olds -- Challah / Chaia Heller -- Stranded in Mobridge by a spring blizzard / Kathleen Norris -- Must we train ourselves to be as doves / Emily Hiestand -- Groundhog Day / Lynn Ungar -- Winter light / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Friday afternoon: the rabbi's wife / Enid Shomer -- Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80 / Judy Grahn -- Washing sheets in July / Jane Gentry -- Happiness / Jane Kenyon -- Yard sale / Jane Kenyon -- In the kitchen we string beans / Barbara Presnell -- Each thing measured by the same sun / Linda Gregg -- Except for Laura Secord (or famous women from Canada's past) / Sylvia Maultash Warsh -- A hardware store as proof of the existence of God / Nancy Willard -- Salvadoran salsa / Kascha Piotrzkowski -- To make history / Wendy Rose -- Love, family, friendship -- Every fact is a field / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- For Jan, in Bar Maria / Carolyn Kizer -- Yellow roses / Lyn Lifshin -- Sunday night, driving home / Judy Goldman -- Easter Sunday, 1955 / Elizabeth Spires -- Recalling The Family Group, a sculpture by Henry Moore / Dianne Williams Stepp -- A letter from Margaret to his sister / Debra Hines -- Variation on the door / Margaret Randall -- At the Cafe Saint Jacques / Regina deCormier -- Negative space / Helen Trubek Glenn -- Motion / Joy Harjo -- The lost bells of heaven / Linda Gregg -- Attraction / Enid Shomer -- Daylily / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- China / Dorianne Laux -- The dancers / Kathleen Norris -- Variation on the word 'sleep' / Margaret Atwood -- Ecstasy / Sharon Olds -- Cathay / Patricia Goedicke -- Personal ad / Suzanne Redding -- Seduction / Nikki Giovanni -- Harlem / Maureen Seaton -- Secure / May Swenson -- Familiar / Donna Masini -- For my husband sleeping alone / Donna Masini -- Dulzura / Sandra Cisneros -- Wish / Judith Sornberger -- Poem in praise of my husband / Diane di Prima -- The garden / Louise Gluck -- Wanting all / Alicia Ostriker -- Shazam / Colleen McElroy -- You lay between us from April until July / Sharon Doubiago -- The Summit of Wives / Joey Kay Wauters -- Divorce / Marlene Pearson -- Divorce / Anne Sexton -- Bitch / Carolyn Kizer -- Answered prayers / Kathleen Norris -- |
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From fullness we give -- Conception and birthing -- To my still-unconceived daughter / Andrea Potos -- The name of my daughter / Kate Gleason -- Infertility / Cathy Griffith -- Could it have been the fine thread? / River Malcolm -- The premonition / Sharon Olds -- Middle child / Carol Jane Bangs -- Miscarriage / Laura Apol -- Bone poem / Nancy Willard -- Creation / Ellen Bass -- The run of silvers / Peggy Shumaker -- Elena at five years / Demetria Martinez -- Annunciation / Gayle Elen Harvey -- Hymn / Enid Shomer -- Toward the music / Susan Kelly-DeWitt -- Stone fruit / Lin Max -- And I am a lucky woman / Ellen Bass -- Margaret Fuller in the Abruzzi Mountains, June 1848 / Eva Heisler -- Incarnation / Lynn Ungar -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak / Joy Harjo -- Mothering -- Pastoral / Rita Dove -- Collage: mother, daughter, child, and book / Nancy Means Wright -- In the ocean / Patricia Goedicke -- There are times in life when one does the right thing / Ellen Bass -- For my husband's mother / Ellen Bass -- Letter to the children / Alice Friman -- The meaning of bones / Megan Sexton -- When Persephone leaves / Sheila Demetre -- The Boston School of Cooking Cookbook / Rhona McAdam -- The power in my mother's arms / Florence Weinberger -- Elinor Frost's marble-topped kneading table / Pattiann Rogers -- Surviving (excerpt) / Alicia Ostriker -- Signing my name / Alison Townsend -- The silver shoes / Alison Townsend -- Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park / Nellie Wong -- Eve of the longest day / Sharon Doubiago -- Seeing the aurora with Emily / Anne Pitkin -- Illness -- February letter / Judith Sornberger -- Locked ward, Newtown, Connecticut / Rachel Loden -- Still / Lynn Goldfarb -- Mammogram / Paula Goldman -- Two / Susan Spady -- The line / Sharon Olds -- Scar / Jeanette Leardi -- The man of many L's / Maxine Kumin -- Winter-seeming summer / Donna Masini -- The woman who could not live with her faulty heart / Margaret Atwood -- Praying to Big Jack / Anne Sexton -- When I understood / Donna Masini -- Naked ladies / Carol Tufts -- For Jan as the end draws near / Carolyn Kizer -- Go gentle / Linda Pastan -- Mid-American tragedy / Denise Levertov -- Close to death / Sharon Olds -- Red poppy / Tess Gallagher -- Death -- Food chain / Lynn Ungar -- The great blue heron / Carolyn Kizer -- Between losses / Judy Goldman -- Burying the past / Kathleen Norris -- The legacy / Judith Minty -- Living with the dead / Enid Shomer -- Listening / Margaret Randall -- Salt / Anne Pitkin -- Retrospect in the kitchen / Maxine Kumin -- My cousin dancing / Carol Tufts -- Summation / Susan Daily -- Paradise / Tess Gallagher -- Infinite room / Tess Gallagher -- Another elegy / Margaret Atwood -- Health / Margo Lockwood -- Girlfriend / Audre Lorde -- In memory: after a friend's sudden death / Denise Levertov -- Aging -- Aging female poet on laundry day / Margaret Atwood -- Aging female poet sits on the balcony / Margaret Atwood -- Cross currents / Noelle Sickels -- Dogwoods at forty-one / Willa Schneberg -- The power of place / Deena Linett -- Poem for the old woman I am becoming / Dianne Williams Stepp -- The crows / Louis Bogan -- Untitled / Kathian Poulton -- The gloves / Margaret Randall -- Grace enters Armageddon / Nancy Means Wright -- All my friends' pets are growing old / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- The lovers at eighty / Marilyn Taylor -- Bird lady / Betsy Sholl -- At the Roosevelt Baths / Jane Hirshfield -- Gather / Linda Hogan -- When she laughs / Judith Sornberger -- Hunchback / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- The bird woman / Kathryn A. Young -- |
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We bless those that follow -- Compassion -- Learning CPR / Enid Shomer -- Back from the city / Jane Kenyon -- Choice / George Ella Lyon -- Sickness / Linda Hogan -- Solitary / Sharon Olds -- Selective Service / Carolyn Forche -- The argument, 1973 / Betsy Sholl -- Blood / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The use of fiction / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Painting of a white gate and sky / Louise Erdrich -- Vespers / Louise Gluck -- Bread and water / Shirley Kaufman -- Can't tell / Nellie Wong -- Women bathing at Bergen-Belsen / Enid Shomer -- Memorial Day / George Ella Lyon -- Bob / Judy Goldman -- Easter: the lame bull / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- News report, September 1991 / Denise Levertov -- January 1991 / Lucille Clifton -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / Joy Harjo -- The Adamsons' peacocks / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- Near Roscoe and Coldwater (excerpt) / Amy Uyematsu -- The weighing / Jane Hirshfield -- Touched / Olga Broumas -- Work -- The piemaker / Lin Max -- Portraits in contradiction / Virginia Gilbert -- Restaurant / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The magician / Sandra Hoben -- Living in the Barn / Robin Becker -- Night shift at the fruit cannery / Ilze Mueller -- The women always wave the flags / Donna Allegra -- Why I make the best barrels / Eliza Garza -- A woman in a car driving / Lyn Lifshin -- The lesson / Linda Katz -- Gertrude Kasebier / Ellen Bass -- Call the interval happiness / Jane Glazer -- God and the artists' colony / Rebecca Baggett -- Risk / Lisa Colt -- My poems / Nita Penfold -- Work / Eva Hooker -- Ars Poetica Feminae (excerpt) / Sandra Kohler -- Woman of light / Laura Apol -- Mother notes for Elaine / Peggy Garrison -- Poet's manual / Alice Friman -- For those whom the gods love less / Denise Levertov -- Poem white page white page poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- Who / Jane Kenyon -- Out of the void: faith and courage -- Partings / Linda Hogan -- Making a fist / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The hermit / Jane Kenyon -- Snowdrops / Louise Gluck -- An act of faith / Barbara Jordan -- Meatballs / Shirley Kaufman -- The whale / Jane Gentry -- The well / Denise Levertov -- The sky could send you / Donna Masini -- In memory / Katha Pollitt -- Growing light / George Ella Lyon -- The healing time / Pesha Gertler -- Courage / Anne Sexton -- The door / Jane Hirshfield -- Nothing / Linda Hogan. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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Women -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Sewell, Marilyn.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Claiming the spirit within. Boston, Mass : Beacon Press, c1996 (OCoLC)605004331 |
| ISBN |
0807068349 cloth |
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9780807068342 cloth |
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0807068357 paperback |
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9780807068359 paperback |
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