Love Poems by Women
Love Poems by Women

Author: Wendy Mulford

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 1991-01-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780449905388

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For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. Here is the first anthology of love poems written only by women. Poets from all ages and all parts of the world, expressing love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland, are collected here, and include the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickenson, Ono no Komachi, Shadab Vajdi, Alice Walker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and many more.

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

Author: Aliki Barnstone

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1992-04-28

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 0805209972

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A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

No Bliss Like this
No Bliss Like this

Author: Jill Hollis

Publisher: Westview Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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The work of women poets is often overlooked in anthologies, and collections of love poetry are no exception. This delightful and highly original collection shows that on the subject of romantic and sexual love, women can be just as eloquent as men -- if not more so. Here, the bitter and the sweet mingle as women from the last five hundred years write about jealousy, fickleness, exhilaration, the pain of parting, and the transience of love. Revealed is poetry which has been largely invisible since the fifteenth century; surprises from women better known for other things, like Elizabeth I and E. Nesbit; classics old and new from names including Margaret Atwood, Wendy Cope, Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, Erica Jong, Amy Lowell, Stevie Smith, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, Adrienne Rich, Katherine Mansfield, George Eliot, and Dorothy Parker.

Serious Concerns
Serious Concerns

Author: Wendy Cope

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0571254527

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Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).

The Virago Book of Love Poetry
The Virago Book of Love Poetry

Author: Wendy Mulford

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781860494352

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For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstacy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhamotova,Patti Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of women as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it.

Ain't I a Woman!
Ain't I a Woman!

Author: Illona Linthwaite

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the oppressions of race and sex. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the many poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya and Alice Walker. Illona Linthwaite began gathering this collection several years ago, initially for a theatrical performance. Here, in this unique exchange between women of many races, affirming their differences and what they have in common, are more than 150 poems which assert the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth's challenge, "Ain't I a Woman!" In addition to the poems, there are biographies of the 91 contributors.

My Lover is a Woman
My Lover is a Woman

Author: Lesléa Newman

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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"Editor Leslea Newman has collected the work of both well-known and emerging poets, some of them published here for the first time to create an anthology of some of the finest writers of any gender or sexual orientation writing poetry today." "These poets have written daring confessions of love, sorrow, anger, and joy. Each poem is an elaborate confirmation of the resilience of the human spirit, and the ability to transform experience - including the struggle against the societal taboo of same-sex love - into brilliant poetry."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

What Kind of Woman
What Kind of Woman

Author: Kate Baer

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0063008432

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An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

The New Faber Book of Love Poems
The New Faber Book of Love Poems

Author: James Fenton

Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780571218158

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'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.

When a Woman Loves a Man
When a Woman Loves a Man

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1416584870

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This collection of poems from the series editor of The Best American Poetry and the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry seamlessly captures the romance, irony, and pathos of love. David Lehman movingly chronicles the days in post-9/11 New York and bring a fresh perspective to an array of subjects -- from the Brooklyn Bridge to Gertrude Stein to Buddhism. The work of a poet at the height of his lyrical and reflective powers, When a Woman Loves a Man is playful, inventive, and as amusing as it is clever.