| Description |
xiv, 295 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
The will's love / Besmilr Brigham -- Childhood / Margaret Walker -- The Girl in the Willow Tree / Carolyn Maisel -- Sunday Afternoon / Denise Levertov -- The Grace of Cynthia's Maidenhood / Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio -- Spring / Ruth Whitman -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni -- The Way It Is / Gloria Oden -- On Approaching My Birthday / Vasar Miller -- Mother / Sharon Mayer Libera -- letter to my mother / Anita Skeen -- Foxfire / Nancy WIllard -- The Nude on the Bathroom Wall / Gena Ford -- A Woman Mourned by Daughters / Adrienne Rich -- Woman Skating / Margaret Atwood -- The Question / Muriel Rukeyser -- All the Dead Dears / Sylvia Plath -- Portrait of the Father / Lindy Hough -- a poem for my father / Sonia Sanchez -- Legacy / Gena Ford -- A Way of Keeping / Nancy WIllard -- The Moss of His Skin / Anne Sexton -- Indian Summer / Barbara Howes -- And This Is Love / Paula Reingold -- Alive Together / Lisel Mueller -- 28 VIII 69 / Laura Chester -- The Marriage Wig / Ruth Whitman -- Ghost Poem Five / Mary Norbert Korte -- To the Man I Live With / Ann Menebroker -- So We've Come at Last to Freud / Alice Walker -- In Spite of His Dangling Pronoun / Lyn Lifshin -- A Family Man / Maxine Kumin -- Mood as Medusa / Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio -- The Blind Leading the Blind / Lisel Mueller -- Growing Together / Joyce Carol Oates -- Bedtime / Denise Levertov -- ... The Dancer from the Dance / Suzanne Juhsz -- To a Husband / Maya Angelou -- Extensions of Linear Mobility / Jeanine Hathaway -- No More Soft Tal / Diane Wakoski -- Even There / Lyn Lifshin -- They Went Home / Maya Angelou -- For My Lover, Returning to His Wife / Anne Sexton -- The Paisley Ceiling / Lila Arnold -- I Wake, My Friend, I / Faye Kicknosway -- Living in Sin / Adrienne Rich -- Journey / Diane Wakoski -- The Mutes / Denise Levertov -- Finding You / Virginia Gilbert -- Outside Phyllis Beauvais -- The Fertile Valley of the Nile / Eve Merriam -- The Key to Everything / May Swenson -- Harbor / Nancy Price -- The Masochist / Maxine Kumin -- Fire Island / Rita Mae Brown -- sequence for a young widow passing / Deborah Munro -- To Be in Love / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Weather of Six Mornings / Jane Cooper -- The Children / Constance Urdang -- Poems for the New / Kathleen Fraser -- Poem Wondering if I'm Pregnant / Kathleen Fraser -- Foetal Song / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Recovery Room: Lying-in / Helen Chasin -- Waiting for the Doctor / Colette Inez -- Morning Song / Sylvia Plath -- The Unwanted / Mary Gordon -- The Abortion / Anne Sexton -- The Empty Woman / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Reflections on a Womb Which is Called "Vacant" / Jeanine Hathaway -- The Children / Susan MacDonald -- For Anne, who doesn't know / Gail Fox -- The Disconnection / Rita Mae Brown -- A Dream of Women / Carolyn Maisel -- Drifting / Kathleen Spivak -- The Sleeping Fury / Louise Bogan -- Sisters / Adrienne Rich -- Patty, 1949-1961 / Sharon Mayer Libera -- The Story of Good / Phyllis Janik -- If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan -- Coming Out / Jacqueline Lapidus -- Miniatures IV. Mute the Hand Moves the Heart / Lynn Strongin -- sailing in crosslight / Anita Skeen -- Woman / Jane Chambers -- From: First Aspen / Lynn Strongin -- Sayre / Lynn Strongin -- instructions / Anita Skeen -- Lesbian Poem / Robin Morgan -- tell our daughters / Besmil Brigham -- Saying Goodbye / Suzanne Juhasz -- My People / Margery Himel -- Truth / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Housewife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Her Story / Naomi Long Madgett -- A Work of Artifice / Marge Piercy -- The Rebel / Mari E. Evans -- Interview with a Tourist / Margaret Atwood -- Evaporation Poems / Kathleen Norris -- From 2nd Chance Man: The Cigarette Poem / Faye Kicknosway -- The Man in the Dream is Death / Lynne Butler -- Birthday Card for a Psychiatrist / Mona Van Duyn -- The First Test / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Womb Song / Susan Fromberg-Schaeffer -- The Invisible Woman / Robin Morgan -- Evening in the Sanitarium / Louise Bogan -- Her Application to Elysium / Kathleen Norris -- A Letter from a Friend / Carolyn Maisel -- In the Hospital of the Holy Physician / Nancy Willard -- A valley where I don't belong / Marge Piercy -- Invocation to Sappho / Elsa Gidlow -- Mythics / Helen Chasin -- A Conversation / Barbara Howes -- Aristophanes' Symposium / Rita Mae Brown -- Diptych / Velma West Sykes -- Mercedes, Her Aloneness / Colette Inez -- for our lady / Sonia Sanchez -- Closer First to Earth / Anne Hazlewood-Brady -- In Sylvia Plath Country / Erica Jong -- after reading Sylvia Plath / Alta -- Waiting to Die / Anne Sexton -- Flannery O'Connor / Dorothy Walters -- The Double Axe / Anne Hazlewood-Brady -- How Beautiful You Are: 3 / Elaine Edelman -- Investigation / Julia Vinograd -- Then and Now / Kath Walker -- 12 Gates to the City / Niki Giovanni -- Provisions / Margaret Atwood -- Vive Noir! / Mari E. Evans -- Revolutionary Letter #19 / Diane Di Prima -- Reciprocity / Vassar Miller -- Lines for a Hard Time / Gena Ford -- Letter to Robert / Mary Fabilla -- On the Fifth Anniversary of Bluma Sach's Death / Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio -- The Orange Tree / Ellen Pearce -- Crystal / Faye Kicknosway -- The Traveling Out / Lucile Adler -- Nightbreak / Adrienne Rich -- The Old One and the Wind / Clarice Short -- Rino's Song / Lynne Lawner -- More Clues / Muriel Rukeyser -- The Triple Mirror / Gloria Oden -- In the Field / Phyllis Janik -- Let us suppose the mind / Barbara Moraff -- Cinéma Vérité / Dorothy Walters -- Running Through Sleep / Kathleen Norris -- The Importance of Mirros / Helga Sandburg -- Encounter / Geraldine Hammond -- Town I Left / Helen Sorrells -- I've been going around everywhere / Josephine Miles -- Palindrome / Lisel Mueller -- song of the strange young duckling / Deborah Munro -- The Demon Lover / Adrienne Rich -- Myth / Muriel Rukeyser -- The Voices Inescapable / Ann Stanford -- modern poetry / Anita Skeen -- Lines for Those to Whom Tragedy is Denied / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Dictionary is an Historian / Judith McCombs -- Falling Out / Helen Chasin -- Signatuer / Hannah Kahn -- The Turtle's Belly / Ellen Pearce -- Walking the Beach / Sarah Youngblood -- Portrait of an Artist / Barbara Howes -- Singing Aloud / Carolyn Kizer -- Two Roads, Etc. / Dorothy Walters -- At the Western Shore / Sarah Yongblood -- Matin / Denise Levertov. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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Women -- Poetry.
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Women -- Poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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American poetry -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807417
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Konek, Carol, editor.
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Walters, Dorothy, 1928-2023 editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: I hear my sisters saying. New York : Crowell, ©1976 (OCoLC)565258186 |
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Online version: I hear my sisters saying. New York : Crowell, ©1976 (OCoLC)608507820 |
| ISBN |
0690010923 |
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9780690010923 |
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0690011075 (pbk.) |
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9780690011074 (pbk.) |
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