A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's PoetryMargarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman 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 |
66 | 207 |
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| Title | A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry |
| Editors | Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman |
| Contributor | Margarita Donnelly |
| Publisher | CALYX Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 093497182X, 9780934971829 |
| Length | 217 pages |
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