Format:
Book
Title:
100 essential modern poems by women / selected by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton ; introductions and commentary by Joepsh Parisi.
Call Number:
821.08 One
Publisher, Date:
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2008.
Description:
xiii, 289 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
English poetry -- Women authors.
English poetry -- 20th century.
English poetry -- 19th century.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 19th century.
Other Author:
Parisi, Joseph, 1944-
Welton, Kathleen, 1956-
Other Title:
One hundred essential modern poems by women
Contents:
[1.] Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : I'm nobody! who are you? (1861) ; I can wade grief (1862) ; I like a look of agony (1862) ; After great pain, a formal feeling comes (1862) ; I died for beauty (1862) ; I dwell in possibility (1862) ; Because I could not stop for death (1862) ; I heard a fly buzz, when I died (1863) ; Much madness is divinest sense (1863) ; They say that "time assuages" (1864) -- [2.] Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) : In an artist's studio ; Remember -- [3.] Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) : The new colossus -- [4.] Amy Lowell (1874-1925) : The letter ; Katydids -- [5.] Mina Loy (1882-1966) : from Songs to Joannes -- [6.] Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) : After Love -- [7.] Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) : The eagle and the mole ; Parting gift -- [8.] H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : Birds in snow ; from The walls do not fall: I, VI -- [9.] Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) : from Fac̨ade: Sir Beelzebub ; Still falls the rain -- [10.] Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : No swan so fine ; The past is the present ; Silence -- [11.] Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) : What lips my lips have kissed ; I, being born a woman and distressed -- [12.] Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) : One perfect rose ; Symptom recital -- [13.] Louise Bogan (1897-1970) : Women -- [14.] Stevie Smith (1902-1971) : The queen and the young princess -- [15.] Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) : Public journal -- [16.] Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- [17.] May Swenson (1913-1989) : Neither wanting more ; Unconscious came a beauty ; Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another -- [18.] Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) : More of a corpse than a woman ; What they said ; Waiting for Icarus ; Myth -- [19.] Ruth Stone (b. 1915) : Getting to know you ; Train ride -- [20.] Judith Wright (1915-2000) : Five senses ; Woman to child ; Ishtar -- [21.] Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) : Kitchenette building -- [22.] Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) : Nothing stays put -- [23.] Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004) : In bed with a book ; The stream -- [24.] Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : The ache of marriage ; Divorcing -- [25.] Lisel Mueller (b 1924) : Necessities -- [26.] Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) : Children ; from Pro femina: I, II -- [27.] Maxine Kumin (b 1925) : The envelope ; A calling -- [28.] Anne Sexton (1928-1974) : Housewife ; The truth the dead know -- [29.] Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) : I am in danger, Sir ; from Twenty-one love poems: III, XI ; For the record -- [30.] Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) : Daddy ; Morning song ; Edge -- [31.] Linda Pastan (b. 1932) : What we want ; Prosody 101 ; The obligation to be happy -- [32.] Fleur Adcock (b. 1934) : Advice to a discarded lover ; Poem ended by a death -- [33.] Audre Lorde (1934-1992) : Now that I am forever with child -- [34.] Mary Oliver (b. 1935) : Roses, late summer ; The place I want to get back to -- [35.] Marge Piercy (b. 1936) : My mother's novel ; For strong women ; For the young who want to -- [36.] Lucille Clifton (b 1936) : The lost baby poem -- [37.] Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) : The animals in that country ; Habitation ; Carrying food home in winter ; from Songs of the transformed: Pig song ; Rat song ; Crow song -- [38.] Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) Invocation ; Morning news -- [39.] Sharon Olds (b 1942) : The language of the brag ; Topography -- [40.] Louise Glück (b 1943) : A fable ; Eros -- [41.] Ellen Bryant Voigt (b 1943) : Amaryllis ; Lesson -- [42.] Nikki Giovanni (b 1943) : Legacies -- [43.] Eavan Boland (b 1944) : The pomegranate -- [44.] Kay Ryan (b 1945) : Repulsive theory ; The well or the cup -- [45.] Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) : Happiness ; Otherwise -- [46.] Heather McHugh (b 1948) : Outcry ; A physics -- [47.] Carolyn Forché (b. 1950) : The garden Shukkei-en -- [48.] Rita Dove (b. 1952) : Crab-boil -- [49.] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) : Asiniig ; Advice to myself.
ISBN:
9781566637411 (acid-free paper)
1566637414 (acid-free paper)