100 GRT POEMS BY WOMEN - Hardcover

Kizer C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880014229 ISBN 13: 9780880014229

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer has compiled the second volume in the Golden Ecco Anthology series. This collection is devoted to one hundred of the finest poems written by women.
Kizer begins with a woman writing anonymously in the fifteenth century, and takes us up to the present with important contemporary authors such as Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amy Clampitt, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, and Thylias Moss. This extraordinary anthology also contains major poets such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Gertrude Stein. And there is a generous selection of relatively unknown and wonderfully eccentric poets who wrote in obscurity during the past five hundred years.

About this title

Review:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer has compiled the 100 best poems by women, from the 15th century to the present. Although the book contains many of the obvious choices -- poems by Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich -- it is Kizer's selection of lesser-known but extraordinary poets that makes this collection stand out.

Review:

The Figurehead by Leonie Adams
I Made No Choice by Margaret Atwood
It Was Not My Fault, These Animals by Margaret Atwood
There Must Be More For You To Do by Margaret Atwood
The Rights Of Women by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Static by Mary Barnard
Kept by Louise Bogan
The War Horse by Eavan Boland
Cruel Spite by Anne Boleyn
Carping Tongues by Anne Bradstreet
It Took Me Ten Days by Anna Hempstead Branch
On Beau Nash's Picture At Bath by Jane (hughes) Brereton
Watching And Wishing by Charlotte Bronte
Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte
We Real Cool; The Pool Players. Seven At The Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks
1. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
10. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thinking Of Saints And Of Petronius Arbithe by Mary (1890-1937) Butts
The Tavern by Willa Sibert Cather
Mirth by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Personification Of Melancholy by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Golgotha by Kelly Cherry
Dodona: Asked Of The Oracle by Amy Clampitt
Quatrain by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton
Doubt by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The New-born Baby's Song by Frances Crofts Darwin Cornford
I Would Not Paint - A Picture by Emily Dickinson
The Three Fates by Rosemary Dobson
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Self And The Otherself by Elizabeth I
I Pray To Venus by Elizabeth Of York
England by Elaine Feinstein
The Soldier's Death by Anne Finch
The Letters Of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner
The Visitor by Carolyn Forche
Strike by Veronica Forrest-thomson
Linoleum by Tess Gallagher
The Triumph Of Achilles by Louise Gluck
In What Manner The Body Is United With The Soule by Jorie Graham
Gnostics On Trial by Linda Gregg
I Ask No Kind Return Of Love by Frances (fanny) Macartney Greville
Introductory Lines by Marilyn Hacker
Madame Esmerelda's Predictions by Gwen Harwood
The Homes Of England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
If Ever Hapless Woman Had A Cause by Mary Sidney Herbert
Mighty Forms by Brenda Lynn Hillman
Elegy On The Death Of Her Husband by Anne (dacre) Howard
Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Gentle Reader by Josephine Jacobsen
Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
Upon The Saying That My Verses Were Made By Another by Anne Killigrew
Getting The Message by Maxine W. Kumin
Eves Apologie by Aemilia (bassano) Lanyer
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Upon Her Play Being Returned To Her Stained With Claret by Mary Leapor
Poet And Person by Denise Levertov
Remembered Morning by Janet Lewis
The Lonely Wife by Amy Lowell
The Black Virginity by Mina Loy
Unfinished Sonnet by Mary
Teraphim by Medbh Mcguckian
Eschatology by Sandra Jean Mcpherson
The Trees Are Down by Charlotte Mew
The Rainy Summer by Alice Meynell
Justice Denied In Massachusetts by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Thoughts After Ruskin by Elma Mitchell
Poetry by Marianne Moore
After The Storm by Rosalie Moore
It Is The Living by Hilda Morley
Rush Hour by Thylias Moss
Romantics by Lisel Mueller
To The Muse: New Year's Eve, 1990 by Carol Anne Muske
Charlie Is My Darling by Carolina Oliphant Nairne
As Praiseworthy by Lorine Niedecker
For Best Work by Lorine Niedecker
My Mother Saw The Green Tree Toad by Lorine Niedecker
Old Man Who Seined by Lorine Niedecker
Smile by Lorine Niedecker
You Are My Friend by Lorine Niedecker
Young In Fall I Said: The Birds by Lorine Niedecker
Summoned by Diana O'hehir
I Go Back To May 1937 by Sharon Olds
To Phylocles, Inviting Him To Friendship by Joan Philips
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
Visiting A Dead Man On A Summer Day by Marge Piercy
But For Lust by Ruth Pitter
Kindness by Sylvia Plath
Communion Of Saints: The Poor Bastard Under The Bridge by Marie Ponsot
The Unloved by Kathleen Jessie Raine
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 13 (dedications) by Adrienne Cecile Rich
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
To Madam S---at The Court by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The Poem As Mask by Muriel Rukeyser
Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
And One For My Dame by Anne Sexton
Sonnet: On Women's Business by Judith Johnson Sherwin
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Going Up To Sotheby's by Muriel Sarah Spark
Winning His Way, Sels. by Gertrude Stein
Curtains by Ruth Stone
Question by May Swenson
The Lazarus Carol by Eve Triem
The Flower And The Leaf, Sels. by Anonymous
A Life You Might Say You Might Live by Constance Urdang
Three Valentines To The Wide World: 3 by Mona Van Duyn
Delilah by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Caveat To The Fair Sex by Mary Wortley Montagu
Australia 1970 by Judith Wright
Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

This is a splendid collection. Five centuries of women's verse speak here with breadth and freshness and constant strength. -- Richard Wilbur

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0880014229
• ISBN 13: 9780880014229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184