A Poem of Her Own Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today

by Clinton, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780810942400
• ISBN10: 0810942402
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Presents a collection of more than twenty poems by American women published between 1678 and 2001.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Women's Poetic Gifts	4	(8)
``The Author to Her Book''	12	(3)
Anne Bradstreet
``An Hymn to the Evening''	15	(1)
Phillis Wheatley
``The Brown Thrush''	16	(3)
Lucy Larcom
#657 ``I Dwell in Possibility''	19	(1)
Emily Dickinson
``The Battle-Hymn of the Republic''	20	(2)
Julia Ward Howe
``The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day''	22	(4)
Lydia Maria Child
``The New Colossus''	26	(3)
Emma Lazarus
``I Sit and Sew''	29	(1)
Alice Dunbar - Nelson
``Poetry''	30	(3)
Marianne Moore
``[I, being born a woman and distressed]''	33	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
``Women''	34	(3)
Louise Bogan
``Stanzas in Meditation: Part Four, #9''	37	(2)
Gertrude Stein
``Jessie Mitchell's Mother''	39	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
``Bears''	40	(2)
Adrienne Rich
``Her Kind''	42	(3)
Anne Sexton
``Morning Song''	45	(1)
Sylvia Plath
``Homage to My Hips''	46	(3)
Lucille Clifton
``In Cold Storm Light''	49	(1)
Leslie Marmon Silko
``Lost Sister''	50	(2)
Cathy Song
``Good Hotdogs''	52	(2)
Sandra Cisneros
``What Do Women Want?''	54	(3)
Mary Jo Salter
``The Girls in the Circle''	57	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
``By Accident''	58	(2)
Julia Alvarez
``A Road Through the Woods''	60	(2)
Marge Piercy
``Women Who Came Before Us''	62	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Poet Biographies	64	(15)
Author's Note Illustrator's Note	79