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- Summary
- More than three hundred poems by female authors celebrate the sacredness of women's life, from the experiences that shape women and their relationships to their legacy,
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 345 pages
- Note
- Includes indexes
- Contents
-
- 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
- From this we come. Generations: Poem in September, on my mother's birthday
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; When I feel most like her
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; I go back to May 1937
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Where I'm from
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; On the Hovander homestead
- 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
- Joanne McCarthy ; The Grandmother songs
- Linda Hogan ; To Jacqueline, age 2, in her great-grandmother's house
- Kathleen Norris ; Forgiveness
- 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
- By this we live. The earth and her creatures: My mother
- 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
- Susan Griffin ; For a wedding on Mount Tamalpais
- 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 Hirshfield ; Happiness
- 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 Hirshfield ; The love of aged horses
- 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
- Jane Hirshfield ; The earth is a living thing
- 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
- Lucille Clifton ; Among the cows
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; The lull
- 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
- Molly Peacock ; Jug Brook
- 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
- 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
- From fullness we give. Conception and birthing: To my still-unconceived daughter
- 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
- Andrea Potos ; The name of my daughter
- 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
- Kate Gleason ; Infertility
- 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
- Cathy Griffith ; Could it have been the fine thread?
- 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
- River Malcolm ; The premonition
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Middle child
- 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
- Carol Jane Bangs ; Miscarriage
- 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
- Laura Apol ; Bone poem
- 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
- 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
- We bless those that follow. Compassion: Learning CPR
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; Back from the city
- 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
- Jane Kenyon ; Choice
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; Sickness
- 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
- Linda Hogan ; Solitary
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Selective Service
- Carolyn Forche ; The argument, 1973
- Betsy Sholl ; Blood
- Isbn
- 9780807068359
- Label
- Claiming the spirit within : a sourcebook of women's poetry
- Title
- Claiming the spirit within
- Title remainder
- a sourcebook of women's poetry
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Marilyn Sewell
- Title variation
-
- Sourcebook of women's poetry
- Women's poetry
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- More than three hundred poems by female authors celebrate the sacredness of women's life, from the experiences that shape women and their relationships to their legacy,
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 811/.540809287
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS589
- LC item number
- .C5 1996
- Literary form
- poetry
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Sewell, Marilyn
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American poetry
- American poetry
- Women
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Claiming the spirit within : a sourcebook of women's poetry, edited by Marilyn Sewell
- Note
- Includes indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- From this we come. Generations: Poem in September, on my mother's birthday
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; When I feel most like her
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; I go back to May 1937
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Where I'm from
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; On the Hovander homestead
- 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
- Joanne McCarthy ; The Grandmother songs
- Linda Hogan ; To Jacqueline, age 2, in her great-grandmother's house
- Kathleen Norris ; Forgiveness
- 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
- By this we live. The earth and her creatures: My mother
- 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
- Susan Griffin ; For a wedding on Mount Tamalpais
- 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 Hirshfield ; Happiness
- 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 Hirshfield ; The love of aged horses
- 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
- Jane Hirshfield ; The earth is a living thing
- 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
- Lucille Clifton ; Among the cows
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; The lull
- 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
- Molly Peacock ; Jug Brook
- 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
- 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
- From fullness we give. Conception and birthing: To my still-unconceived daughter
- 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
- Andrea Potos ; The name of my daughter
- 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
- Kate Gleason ; Infertility
- 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
- Cathy Griffith ; Could it have been the fine thread?
- 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
- River Malcolm ; The premonition
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Middle child
- 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
- Carol Jane Bangs ; Miscarriage
- 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
- Laura Apol ; Bone poem
- 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
- 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
- We bless those that follow. Compassion: Learning CPR
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; Back from the city
- 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
- Jane Kenyon ; Choice
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; Sickness
- 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
- Linda Hogan ; Solitary
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Selective Service
- Carolyn Forche ; The argument, 1973
- Betsy Sholl ; Blood
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 345 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807068359
- Lccn
- 96005776
- Media category
- unmediated
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- Claiming the spirit within : a sourcebook of women's poetry, edited by Marilyn Sewell
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- Contents
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- 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
- From this we come. Generations: Poem in September, on my mother's birthday
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; When I feel most like her
- 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
- Judith Sornberger ; I go back to May 1937
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Where I'm from
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; On the Hovander homestead
- 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
- Joanne McCarthy ; The Grandmother songs
- Linda Hogan ; To Jacqueline, age 2, in her great-grandmother's house
- Kathleen Norris ; Forgiveness
- 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
- By this we live. The earth and her creatures: My mother
- 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
- Susan Griffin ; For a wedding on Mount Tamalpais
- 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 Hirshfield ; Happiness
- 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 Hirshfield ; The love of aged horses
- 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
- Jane Hirshfield ; The earth is a living thing
- 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
- Lucille Clifton ; Among the cows
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; The lull
- 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
- Molly Peacock ; Jug Brook
- 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
- 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
- From fullness we give. Conception and birthing: To my still-unconceived daughter
- 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
- Andrea Potos ; The name of my daughter
- 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
- Kate Gleason ; Infertility
- 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
- Cathy Griffith ; Could it have been the fine thread?
- 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
- River Malcolm ; The premonition
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Middle child
- 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
- Carol Jane Bangs ; Miscarriage
- 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
- Laura Apol ; Bone poem
- 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
- 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
- We bless those that follow. Compassion: Learning CPR
- 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
- Enid Shomer ; Back from the city
- 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
- Jane Kenyon ; Choice
- 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
- George Ella Lyon ; Sickness
- 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
- Linda Hogan ; Solitary
- 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
- Sharon Olds ; Selective Service
- Carolyn Forche ; The argument, 1973
- Betsy Sholl ; Blood
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 345 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807068359
- Lccn
- 96005776
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