| Description |
xx, 311 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Owning self. Unlearning to not speak ; The woman in the ordinary / Marge Piercy -- Shameless hussy (excerpt) / Alta -- Woman and nature (excerpt) / Susan Griffin -- Variation on a theme by Rilke ; Stepping westward / Denise Levertov -- The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser -- Outrage / Lucille Iverson -- Woman in the nineteenth century (excerpt) / Margaret Fuller -- Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett -- Now I become myself / May Sarton -- I am running into a new year / Lucille Clifton -- Listen / Linda Lancione Moyer -- Lilith and the doctor / Kathleen Norris -- The journey / Mary Oliver -- The irises / Jeanne Foster -- Blue morning glory / Anne Pitkin -- Housing shortage / Naomi Replansky -- Aging (balm for a 27th birthday) / Erica Jong -- Advice / Ruth Stone. |
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The imperative of intimacy. Prayer for revolutionary love / Denise Levertov -- Out of my time (excerpt) / Marya Mannes -- Councils / Marge Piercy -- To have without holding / Marge Piercy -- Paris and Helen / Judy Grahn -- Pornography and silence (excerpt) / Susan Griffin -- Growing together / Joyce Carol Oates -- After love / Maxine Kumin -- A thought / Linda Hogan -- New mother / Sharon Olds -- Dancing the shout to the true gospel or The song Movement sisters don't want me to sing / Rita Mae Brown -- Late autumn / May Sarton -- The way towards each other / Jeni Couzyn -- Blossom / Mary Oliver -- To drink / Jane Hirshfield -- Medicine ; Love is not concerned / Alice Walker -- The hug / Tess Gallagher -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni -- Feast Day (excerpt) / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Ironing their clothes / Julia Alvarez -- 7:3 ; 2:7 (excerpts) / Alta -- The big heart / Anne Sexton -- Centering (excerpt) / Mary Caroline Richards. |
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Mothering. Advent / Kathleen Norris -- Early morning woman / Joy Harjo -- Poems for the new / Kathleen Fraser -- Magnificat / Chana Bloch -- The wife takes a child / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Birth / George Ella Lyon -- Rising to meet it / Chana Bloch -- Now that I am forever with child / Audre Lorde -- The network of the imaginary mother (2 excerpts) / Robin Morgan -- Lorelei / Alta -- Unspoken / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Happy Birthday / Alicia Ostriker -- Mothers, daughters / Shirley Kaufman -- The bad mother / Susan Griffin -- Black mother woman / Audre Lorde -- February 13, 1980 / Lucille Clifton -- One writer's beginnings (excerpt) / Eudora Welty -- The measure of my days (excerpt) / Florida Scott-Maxwell -- Mother / Sharon Mayer Libera -- Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher -- 35/10 / Sharon Olds. |
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Generations. Dandelion greens / Jane Flanders -- Keeping hair / Ramona Wilson -- Matmiya / Mary TallMountain -- For two who slipped away almost entirely / Alice Walker -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Whitecaps / Betsy Sholl -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Poem to my grandmother in her death / Michele Murray -- Five poems for grandmothers (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood -- Spring fragments (excerpt) / Betsy Sholl -- Prologue (excerpt) / Audre Lorde -- Poem at thirty-nine / Alice Walker -- The envelope / Maxine Kumin -- Eggs ; The moment / Sharon Olds -- Three sweatshop women / Nanying Stella Wong -- A poem about faith / Kathleen Norris -- The will's love / Besmilr Brigham -- What is repeated, what abides / Barbara Hendryson -- Elegy / Maya Angelou. |
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Death and lesser losses. The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ten years ago / Eileen Moeller -- Unborn child elegy (excerpt) ; Country woman elegy / Margaret Gibson -- Flowers / Kathleen Fraser -- 104 ; 3:1 / Alta -- My grandfather / Joanne Hotchkiss -- Lynn / Jeanne Foster -- Easter, 1968 / May Sarton -- What hell is / Heather McHugh -- Mama Rosanna's last bead-clack / Laurel Speer -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" / Alice Walker -- Finding the lamb (excerpt) / Rebecca Newth -- Aunt Lucy / Jane Gentry -- Apples / Shirley Kaufman -- In the house of the dying / Jane Cooper -- In flight / Jennifer Regan -- Grandmother / Marilyn Krysl -- Betrothed / Louise Bogan -- Some slippery afternoon / Daniela Gioseffi -- Gift from the sea (excerpt) / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Waiting / Jane Cooper -- The cancer journals (excerpt) / Audre Lorde -- Gestalt at sixty (excerpt) / May Sarton -- Ebba Dawson : Mardel Rest Home, Haskell, New Jersey / Maria Gillan -- The measure of my days (excerpt) / Florida Scott-Maxwell -- Testimony ; Planting onions / Jane Flanders -- Survivors / Chana Bloch -- The poem as a reservoir for grief (excerpt) / Tess Gallagher -- In the midst of winter (excerpt) / Mary Jane Moffat -- In Blackwater Woods / Mary Oliver -- Anxiety about dying / Alicia Ostriker -- Sonnet 2 from "The Autumn Sonnets" ; All souls / May Sarton. |
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Songs of brokenness and alienation. Crazy quilt / Jane Wilson Joyce -- Silence. She is six years old / Lynn Emanuel -- Greg's got custody of Sally / Julia Alvarez -- Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen (excerpt) / Hildegard of Bingen -- The journey (excerpt) / Lillian Smith -- Solstice poem (excerpt) / Margaret Atwood -- Moving / Jeanne Foster -- Misguided / Harriet Brown -- Christmas letter, 1970 (excerpt) / May Sarton -- Town I left / Helen Sorrells -- S M / Alice Walker -- My mother, who came from China, where she never saw snow / Laureen Mar -- Lady on a bus / Jeanne Lohmann -- I check my parent's house / Julia Alvarez -- The history of my feeling / Kathleen Fraser -- Hand games ; The friend / Marge Piercy -- Housewife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Homes of single women (excerpt) / Susan B. Anthony -- The second sex (excerpt) / Simone de Beauvoir -- Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn / Tess Gallagher -- Clearing the air / Nancy Willard -- Farmwife / Betsy Sholl -- The victim / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Killers of the dream (excerpt) / Lillian Smith -- Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni -- Watts (excerpt) / Shirley Kaufman -- Yom Kippur / Chana Bloch. |
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The will toward the good. To a milkweed / Deborah Digges -- Memoirs, I (excerpt) / Margaret Fuller -- To softness / Laurie Sheck -- This morning / Muriel Rukeyser -- The gardener / Robin Becker -- The woman with the wild-grown hair relaxes after another long day / Nita Penfold -- When he came (excerpt) / Dorothee Sölle -- Prayer for a tenspeed heart / Barbara Hendryson -- Aunt Jane of Kentucky (excerpt) / Eliza Calvert Hall -- The oven loves the TV set / Heather McHugh -- 3:6 (excerpt) / Alta -- A few sirens / Alice Walker -- The network of the imaginary mother (excerpt) / Robin Morgan -- Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 / Julia Ward Howe -- The low road ; The seven of pentacles ; To be of use ; A just anger / Marge Piercy -- It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood -- Small comfort / Katha Pollitt -- Holy the firm (excerpt) / Annie Dillard -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (excerpt) / Annie Dillard -- Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- The day before they bombed Nagasaki / Rebecca Baggett -- Gathered at the river / Denise Levertov -- Conspiracy / Claire Bateman -- Our passion for justice (excerpt) / Carter Heyward -- Beginners ; The fountain / Denise Levertov. |
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Sacredness of the ordinary. Martins (excerpt) ; The acolyte / Denise Levertov -- Moon of the first communion ; The wedding in the courthouse ; The sky is full of blue and full of the mind of God / Kathleen Norris -- "Scientists find universe awash in tiny diamonds" / Pat Mayne Ellis -- Salvation ; The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon -- Nightingales in America / Jane Flanders -- The pedestrian woman / Robin Morgan -- Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields ; Miracle / Susan Griffin -- The woman's Bible (excerpt) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- How he is coming then / Lucille Clifton -- Revolutionary patience (excerpt) / Dorothee Sölle -- Holy the firm (excerpt) / Annie Dillard -- Garlic / Jeanne Foster -- Welcome morning / Anne Sexton -- Domestic poem / Eileen Moeller -- Beatitude / Claire Bateman -- How to stuff a pepper / Nancy Willard. |
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The spirit and the flesh are one. Meditations with Julian of Norwich (excerpt) / Julian of Norwich -- To praise / Ellen Bass -- In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton -- Use of the erotic : the erotic as power (excerpt) / Audre Lorde -- Revolutionary patience (excerpt) / Dorothee Sölle -- God send Easter ; Spring song / Lucille Clifton -- The network of the imaginary mother (excerpt) / Robin Morgan -- Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen (excerpt) / Hildegard of Bingen -- Saturday night worship / Ann Carhart -- White petticoats / Chana Bloch -- O taste and see / Denise Levertov -- Common prayer / Lynn Ungar -- Catechism / Betsy Sholl -- Sunrise / Mary Oliver -- Adam says see (excerpt) / Julia Randall. |
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The unity of all that is. Our houses / Linda Hogan -- Subway / Susan Fawcett -- Mrs. Schneider in church / Kathleen Norris -- Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus (excerpt) / Denise Levertov -- 29 / Alta -- The way of all ideology (excerpt) / Susan Griffin -- The Sabbath of mutual respect / Marge Piercy -- Chains of fire (excerpt) / Elsa Gidlow -- Dream 2 : Brian the still-hunter / Margaret Atwood -- Cutting greens / Lucille Clifton -- The house that fear built : Warsay, 1943 / Jane Flanders -- A ceremony (excerpt) / Robin Morgan -- Childhood of a stranger / Claire Bateman -- Dancing with poets / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- Untitled poem from "The dinner party" / Judy Chicago. |
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Images of the divine. Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks ; The bat / Jane Kenyon -- Beyond God the Father (excerpt) / Mary Daly -- Thank you, Lord (excerpt) / Maya Angelou -- Sexism and God-talk (excerpt) / Rosemary Ruether -- Apotheosis of the kitchen goddess II / Teresa Noelle Roberts -- They say she is veiled / Judy Grahn -- When the saints come marching in ; October (excerpt) / Audre Lorde -- The spiral dance (excerpt) / Starhawk -- Nothing so wise / Jeanne Lohmann -- Meditations with Julian of Norwich (excerpt) / Julian of Norwich -- Inventing sin / George Ella Lyon -- Teeth / Susan Griffin -- Not so. Not so. / Anne Sexton -- Woman's call to the ministry (excerpt) / Caroline Julia Bartlett -- Nape / Jan Epton Seale -- Kali / Lucille Clifton -- Our passion for justice (excerpt) / Carter Heyward -- In this motherless geography / Elaine Orr -- For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (excerpt) / Ntozake Shange -- Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen (excerpt) / Hildegard of Bingen -- Resurrection / Margaret Atwood -- Holy the firm (excerpt) ; Teaching a stone to talk (excerpt) / Annie Dillard -- Epiphany / Pem Kremer -- The measure of my days (excerpt) / Florida Scott-Maxwell -- Eli, Eli / Miriam Kessler -- The color purple (excerpt) / Alice Walker -- Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus (excerpt) ; The thread ; The task / Denise Levertov. |
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Re-Mything. The tree / Cinda Thompson -- The sacrifice / Chana Bloch -- Ruth / Diane Q. Lewis -- Lot's wife / Cherra S. Ransom -- Job's wife (excerpt) / Betsy Sholl -- Poem for Flora / Nikki Giovanni -- Delilah / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Abishag / Shirley Kaufman -- The raising of Lazarus ; Mary ; Holy night / Lucille Clifton -- Jesus dies / Anne Sexton -- The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- To Joan / Lucille Clifton -- Riding Hood / Betsy Sholl -- I and thou / Chana Bloch -- The two Gretels / Robin Morgan -- Myth / Muriel Rukeyser -- Maxim / Josephine Miles -- The mermaid / Lisel Mueller -- Ego-tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni -- Everywoman her own theology / Alicia Ostriker. |
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The word. Why I never answered your letter / Nancy Willard -- Words and language : a haggle (excerpt) / Paul Gunn Allen -- Tell our daughters / Besmilr Brigham -- Stories and poems ; "Naming" from Woman and nature / Susan Griffin -- Poem for a chorus / Marie Cartier -- A way of staying sane (excerpt) / Maxine Kumin -- The last class / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- The making of poems / Lucille Clifton -- One writer's beginnings (excerpt) / Eudora Welty -- Three small songs for the muse / Kathleen Norris -- A visit / George Ella Lyon -- She and the muse ; The secret ; "I learned that her name was Proverb / Denise Levertov. |
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Mothering. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
A sourcebook of poetry and prose which celebrates the many forms of women's spirituality. |
| Subject |
Christian literature, American.
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Christian women -- Religious life -- Literary collections.
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Christian literature -- Women authors.
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| Added Author |
Sewell, Marilyn.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cries of the spirit. Boston : Beacon Press, c1991 (OCoLC)557029565 |
| ISBN |
0807068128 |
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9780807068120 |
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0807068136 paperback |
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9780807068137 paperback |
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0807068497 |
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9780807068496 |
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