100 Essential Modern Poems by Women
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442260041 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Also includes many fine but forgotten poets and several contemporary poets who will surprise, stimulate, and amuse readers.. Presents the masterpieces of fifty great women poets in the English language over the past 150 years. Includes ideas about courage and endurance, life and death, faith and hope, and the continuing search for meaning, as well as the favorite subjects of love, marriage, family dynamics, and nature. Selected by Joseph Parisi, former longtime editor of Poetry magazine, with Kathleen Welton, the collection features such acclaimed poets as Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Maxine Kumin, Audre Lorde, Marianne Moore, Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan, Sylvia Plath, Kay Ryan, and May Swenson. Like the widely praised 100 Essential Modern Poems, this accessible volume is filled with wisdom and insights to delight
Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, down-to-earth New Zealander Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Sharon Olds (notable for her brave if often painful candor), Lucille Clifton (who writes in a minimalist style to maximum effect), Ellen Bryant Voight (a well-grounded poet), and Louise Erdrich. The 100 diverse and dynamic poets are splendidly well chosen, as are the poems, creating an unusually useful and pleasurable volume that can serve as both primer and catalyst to further reading. --Donna Seaman . From Booklist Parisi, former editor of Poetry magazine, covers a gratifying stretch of literary and social terrain in his lively introduction to this distinctive anthology. And the explication does not end there. Parisi and coeditor Welton provide strikingly descriptive, genuinely informative, and zestfully interpretative profiles of each poet, from trailblazers Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell (a large woman with l