IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD, A Century of Women's Voices in Poetry

by Philip, Neil

• ISBN13: 9780525463283
• ISBN10: 0525463283
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Summary

Sixty poems by twentieth-century women have been selected in this remarkable anthology celebrating the power and strength of women. Drawing on poets both familiar and lesser known, this collection traces women's diverse experienced throughout the turbulent years of this century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(17)
Neil Philip
It's a Woman's World	17	(3)
Eavan Boland
Dear Female Heart
Dear Female Heart	20	(1)
Stevie Smith
Return to Frankfurt	20	(1)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Tell Me Again	21	(1)
Nigar Hanim
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson	21	(2)
Gertrude Stein
The Marriage	23	(1)
Anna Wickham
After Eight Years of Marriage	24	(1)
Mamta Kalia
Sung in a Graveyard	24	(1)
Anna Wickham
Woman	25	(1)
Hira Bansode
Chant for Dark Hours	26	(2)
Dorothy Parker
News of a Baby
News of a Baby	28	(1)
Elizabeth Riddell
My Baby Has No Name Yet	28	(1)
Kim Nam-jo
Morning Song	29	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Eskimo Occasion	30	(1)
Judith Rodriguez
Momma Sayings	31	(2)
Harryette Mullen
They Were Alone in the Winter	33	(1)
Luci Tapahonso
Poem for My Sister	34	(1)
Liz Lochhead
Twirling	35	(1)
Jane Flanders
The Good Teachers	36	(2)
Carol Ann Duffy
A Freedom Song
A Freedom Song	38	(1)
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Song for a Young Girl's Puberty Ceremony	39	(1)
Traditional, Papago
To a Daughter Leaving Home	40	(1)
Linda Pastan
Sisters	41	(1)
Wendy Cope
My Sister, the Empress	42	(1)
Ileana Malancioiu
My Wicked Wicked Ways	43	(1)
Sandra Cisneros
Yet Still	44	(2)
Rashidah Ismaili
Domestic Economy
Domestic Economy	46	(1)
Anna Wickham
My Mama Moved Among the Days	46	(1)
Lucille Clifton
All I Want	47	(1)
Luci Tapahonso
Mrs. Small	48	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Portrait by a Neighbor	50	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Folding the Sheets	51	(1)
Rosemary Dobson
``I taught myself to live simply and wisely''	52	(1)
Anna Akhmatova
Prophecy	53	(1)
Elinor Wylie
Elegy for a Woman of No Importance	54	(2)
Nazik al-Mala'ikah
Power
Power	56	(2)
Alma Luz Villanueva
Earth Mother	58	(1)
Sonia Sanchez
``Woman, you are afraid of the forest''	59	(1)
Maria Wine
Upper Broadway	60	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Eve	61	(1)
Dorothy Livesay
The Truth Is	62	(2)
Linda Hogan
Vierge Moderne	64	(1)
Edith Sodergran
To the Tune ``The River Is Red''	65	(1)
Ch'iu Chin
Holding My Beads	66	(1)
Grace Nichols
Surf	66	(2)
Nagase Kiyoko
I Live with a Bullet
I Live with a Bullet...	68	(2)
Margarita Aliger
The Second World War	70	(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
Can't Tell	71	(1)
Nellie Wong
Let Us Be Midwives!	72	(1)
Kurihara Sadako
Freedom Fighter	73	(1)
Antigone Kefala
Fear	74	(1)
Eva Pickova
To My Children	75	(1)
Karen Gershon
When I Was at My Most Beautiful	76	(2)
Ibaragi Noriko
The old Women Gathered
And the Old Women Gathered	78	(1)
Mari Evans
Lineage	79	(1)
Margaret Walker
On a Winter Night	80	(1)
May Sarton
Request to a Year	81	(1)
Judith Wright
Women Laughing	82	(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
The Crazy Woman	83	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Night Gives Old Woman the Word	84	(1)
Gail Tremblay
Ride the Turtle's Back	85	(1)
Beth Brant
Index of Poets	86	(2)
Index of Titles and First Lines	88	(3)
Acknowledgments	91	(2)
Picture Credits	93