A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry

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Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman
CALYX Books, 2002 - American poetry - 217 pages
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's voices pierce that obscurity with a fierce and dazzling brightness that is expansive, fertile, joyous, and powerful. Included among the more than 50 poets are: Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhamatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Molly Peacock, Eleanor Wilner, Wislawa Szymorska, and Elizabeth Woody. "From here will come our literary heritage"-John Berry, Editor-in chief, Library Journal. "When the lacquer bucket breaks, / water is everywhere./ But water already is everywhere, / & sa< this much I understand/ or hope"-Jane Hirshfield, from "The Stream of It."
 

Contents

Janet E Aalfs
1
As if with a straw
7
Judith Arcana
13
Jane Bailey
20
Ellen Bass
24
Gloria Bird
30
Diana Chang
36
Cortney Davis
44
Virginia McGuire
119
Pat Mora
126
Cherrie Moraga
128
Debbra Palmer
134
Marge Piercy
141
Vicki Reitenauer
148
May Sarton
155
Judith Sornberger
161

Maria Ercilla
56
Diane Glancy
61
Carol Gordon
68
LuAnn Keener
98
Sandra Kohler
104
Judith McCombs
112
Alfonsina Storni
167
Emily Warn
180
Eleanor Wilner
193
Alice Derry
206
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