A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933456957 ISBN 13: 9781933456959

Publisher: Wordtech Communications, 2007

Synopsis

Celebrating the diverse traditions of poetic form, editor and poet Annie Finch presents illuminating examples from sixty contemporary women poets who have transformed and strengthened their literary inheritance. A Formal Feeling Comes welcomes the new millennium with intellectual clarity, emotional freedom, and a chorus of powerful voices.

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Review

If Emily Dickinson wasn't the mother of American poetry, she was at least the favorite eccentric aunt. The long-standing poetic rebellion against formalism, especially as it has helped feminist writers to find a free and authentic voice, has had the unfortunate byproduct of separating many women writers from the Dickinsonian tradition of carefully crafted verse. The discipline of poetic form can lead to a freshness of vision, and many women writers are either rediscovering, or have never forgotten, the benefits of scansion, meter, and fixed-form poetry. In this collection you'll find stunning formal poetry, which Rita Dove calls "a talisman against disintegration." Annie Finch has included work from Jane Kenyon, May Sarton, and Molly Peacock, among others.

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Kevin Of The N. E. Crew by Elizabeth Alexander
Ladders by Elizabeth Alexander
Who I Think You Are by Elizabeth Alexander
Zodiac by Elizabeth Alexander
Sonnet 2: 'love Letters To Her Who Lives (alas!) Away) by Nell Altizer
Sonnet 5: 'love Letters To Her Who Lives (alas!) Away) by Nell Altizer
Bilingual Sestina by Julia Alvarez
How I Learned To Sweep by Julia Alvarez
Naming The Fabrics by Julia Alvarez
Villanelle Vi by Judith Barrington
Five Poems From Cora Fry: 1. by Rosellen Brown
Five Poems From Cora Fry: 2. by Rosellen Brown
Five Poems From Cora Fry: 3. by Rosellen Brown
Five Poems From Cora Fry: 4. by Rosellen Brown
Five Poems From Cora Fry: 5. by Rosellen Brown
'the Light They Make': Sonnet 2 by Debra Bruce
'the Light They Make': Sonnet 4 by Debra Bruce
Two Couples by Debra Bruce
Poeta Fui by Julia Budenz
The Sisters by Melissa Cannon
The Bride Of Quietness by Kelly Cherry
History by Kelly Cherry
The Pines Without Peer by Kelly Cherry
The Raiment We Put On by Kelly Cherry
Reading, Dreaming, Hiding by Kelly Cherry
Muddy Kid Comes Home by Sandra Cisneros
The Poet Reflects On Her Solitary Fate by Sandra Cisneros
Rondeau by Cheryl Clarke
Tortoise And Badger by Cheryl Clarke
What Goes Around Comes Around Or The Proof Is In The Pudding by Cheryl Clarke
Belongings by Catherine Davis
Out Of Work, Out Of Touch, Out Of Sorts by Catherine Davis
The Years by Catherine Davis
Blown Apart by Rita Dove
History by Rita Dove
Persephone Underground by Rita Dove
Political by Rita Dove
Hell To Pay by Suzanne J. Doyle
Some Girls by Suzanne J. Doyle
This Shade by Suzanne J. Doyle
Metrics by Rhina Polonia Espaillat
Dear Marilyn by Julie Fay
Words by Julie Fay
Dickinson by Annie Finch
For Grizzel Mcnaught by Annie Finch
A Reply From His Coy Mistress by Annie Finch
Sapphics For Patience by Annie Finch
On Your Twenty-first Birthday by Joan Austin Geier
The Empresss Receives The Head Of A Taiping Rebel by Sarah Gorham
'notes From A Chinese Love Manual': The White Tiger Leaps by Sarah Gorham
Princess Parade by Sarah Gorham
Eden by Emily Grosholz
The Last Of The Courtyard by Emily Grosholz
Legacies by Emily Grosholz
Ballad Of Ladies Lost And Found by Marilyn Hacker
Dusk: July by Marilyn Hacker
Eight Days In April by Marilyn Hacker
The House Beside The Sea by Rachel Hadas
The Lair by Rachel Hadas
Winged Words by Rachel Hadas
The Limbo Dancer by Josephine Jacobsen
Only Alice by Josephine Jacobsen
I Grew Up by Lenore Keeshig-tobias
Mother With Child by Lenore Keeshig-tobias
Gethsemane, A.d. by Dolores Kendrick
Note To The Opthalmologist by Dolores Kendrick
Solo: The Good Blues by Dolores Kendrick
We Are The Writing On The Wall by Dolores Kendrick
Inpatient by Jane Kenyon
Travel: After A Death by Jane Kenyon
Boy by Mary Kinzie
Canicula by Mary Kinzie
Ringing Words by Mary Kinzie
Sound Waves: 1. (at Fourteen Weeks) by Mary Kinzie
Sound Waves: 2. (at Sixteen Weeks) by Mary Kinzie
Sound Waves: 3. (at Twenty-one Weeks) by Mary Kinzie
Sound Waves: Envoi by Mary Kinzie
Sun And Moon by Mary Kinzie
A Muse Of Water by Carolyn Kizer
On A Line From Valery by Carolyn Kizer
Pro Femina: Three by Carolyn Kizer
Pro Femina: Two by Carolyn Kizer
Criminal Sonnets: 37 by Phyllis Koestenbaum
Late Arrivals by Sybil Kollar
Sunday Matinee by Sybil Kollar
Despair by Maxine W. Kumin
The Height Of The Season by Maxine W. Kumin
The Nuns Of Childhood: Two Views: 1. by Maxine W. Kumin
The Nuns Of Childhood: Two Views: 2. by Maxine W. Kumin
Citizens & Sky by Phillis Levin
Dark Horse by Phillis Levin
Planting Roses by Phillis Levin
Time And Music by Janet Lewis
Dirge In Jazz Time by Vassar Miller
How Far? by Vassar Miller
Light Reading by Vassar Miller
A Dream Of Dying by Leslie Monsour
Emily's Words by Leslie Monsour
Sweeping by Leslie Monsour
First Time: 1950 by Honor Moore
A Green Place by Honor Moore
Balance by Marilyn Nelson
The Ballad Of Aunt Geneva by Marilyn Nelson
A Canticle For Abba Jacob by Marilyn Nelson
Chosen by Marilyn Nelson
Daughters, 1900 by Marilyn Nelson
Diverne's Waltz by Marilyn Nelson
Barney Bigard by Suzanne Noguere
The Scribes by Suzanne Noguere
The Secret by Suzanne Noguere
Soma by Suzanne Noguere
Whirling Round The Sun by Suzanne Noguere
Confederacy by Elise Paschen
Litany by Elise Paschen
Anger Sweetened by Molly Peacock
Chriseaster by Molly Peacock
Devolution by Molly Peacock
Good Girl by Molly Peacock
How I Had To Act by Molly Peacock
Pink Dog by Molly Peacock
The Spell by Molly Peacock
On Dorothea Lange's Photograph 'migrant Mother' (1936) by Helen A. Pinkerton
On Vermeer's 'young Woman With A Water Jug' (1658) In The Metropolitan by Helen A. Pinkerton
Chernobyl by Mary Jo Salter
The Rebirth Of Venus by Mary Jo Salter
What Do Women Want? by Mary Jo Salter
Young Girl Peeling Apples by Mary Jo Salter
Father And Daughter by Sonia Sanchez
Haiku by Sonia Sanchez
Haiku by Sonia Sanchez
Song No. 2 by Sonia Sanchez
Song No. 3 by Sonia Sanchez
Small Joys by Eleanor May Sarton
The Tortured by Eleanor May Sarton
Fear Of Shoplifting by Maureen Seaton
Fear Of Subways by Maureen Seaton
Wings by Maureen Seaton
Bernice Got Next To Isis by Leslie Simon
Hattie Went To Market by Leslie Simon
Nellies Give Into Blanche by Leslie Simon
Apology by Elizabeth Spires
The Comb And The Mirror by Elizabeth Spires
Interrogations Of The Sparrow by Elizabeth Spires
Ballad Of The Magic Glasses by Maura Stanton
Living Apart by Maura Stanton
The Archaeology Of Divorce by Patricia Storace
King Lear Bewildered by Patricia Storace
Wedding Song by Patricia Storace
Homework by Mona Van Duyn
Sonnet For Minimalists by Mona Van Duyn
The Vision Test by Mona Van Duyn
Even The Eagles Must Gather by Alma Luz Villanueva
Peace #3 by Alma Luz Villanueva
Baby's Pantoum by Anne Waldman
On Track by Kathleene West
Departure by Mildred Weston
Primitive Place by Mildred Weston
The Leopard In Eden by Gail White
Book Of Routh by Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Poem For The Children by Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Rockin' A Man, Stone Blind by Carolyn Beard Whitlow
The Ballad Of Biddy Early by Nancy Willard
The Cat's Second Song by Nancy Willard
The Speckled Hen's Morning Song To Biddy Early by Nancy Willard
Grandmother's Song by Nellie Wong
Ironing by Nellie Wong
State Of Preservation by Celeste Turner Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordtech Communications
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933456957
• ISBN 13: 9781933456959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Finch Annie