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She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets - Softcover

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Synopsis

This award-winning anthology contains poetry by 29 outstanding contemporary American women poets invoking and celebrating the reality of the Goddess. The poets include Maya Angelou, Diane di Prima, Judy Grahn, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Carolyn Kizer, Denise Levertov, Robin Morgan and Marge Piercy. Illustrated by Mayumi Oda.

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About the Author

JANINE CANAN MD, Stanford and NYU Medical School graduate, is a psychiatrist and the author of ten books of poetry. These include Her Magnificent Body, Changing Woman, the award-winning anthology She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets, the translations Star in My Forehead: Selected Poems by Else Lasker-Schueler, and The Rhyme of the Ag-Ed Mariness: Last Poems of Lynn Lonidier (edited by Canan).

Canan's work has appeared in countless journals and dozens of anthologies, notably New Directions, Up Late, American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century, The Divine Feminine, From the Realm of the Ancestors, Get Well Wishes, and Her Words. She has given poetry performances at the Smithsonian, Rutgers, CUNY, Elliott Bay Books, Powell Books, University of California Art Museum, Shakespeare & Co in Paris, as well as on radio and television.

In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969—1999 by Janine Canan, and a collection of Canan’s short stories, Journeys with Justine, are forthcoming.

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