Category: Womens Poetry

By James Perrin Warren

The street to the Spring is the 1st ebook booklet of Mary Austin’s
(1868–1934) poems. top identified for her prose ebook The Land of Little
Rain (1903), Austin used to be actually a poet from the start of her profession to
the tip, although she by no means released a quantity devoted to her own
unique poetry. as an alternative, Austin’s paintings got here to gentle in collections of poetry
and in prestigious journals corresponding to Poetry, the kingdom, the discussion board, Harper’s,
and Saturday assessment of Literature, between many others.
the line to the Spring includes greater than two hundred poems, so much of which
can merely be present in out-of-print books, magazines, and periodicals, and
her unpublished manuscripts archived on the Huntington Library. This singular
e-book comprises her unique paintings, poems she claimed to have
written together with her grammar institution scholars on the finish of the 19th century,
and her translations and "re-expressions" of local American songs,
which regularly diverge drastically from the other identified assets. Warren includes
an advent, laying out Austin’s position in American literature and
situating her writings in feminist, environmentalist, regionalist, and Native
American contexts. He additionally comprises notes for these new to Austin’s work,
glossing local phrases, geographical names, and the ethnological sources
of the local songs she re-creates.

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By Erica Jong,Jos. A. Smith

The New York Times–bestselling writer of Fear of Flying celebrates witches during this gorgeously illustrated brew of witchcraft lore, potions, secrets and techniques, and myth.
 
With a mixture of real fascination, passionate enthusiasm, and prepared feminist perception, Erica Jong wades via a bathroom of myths, incorrect information, old hysteria, and modern Halloween costumes to provide a beneficiant exploration and social gathering of witches.
 
From their origins as descendants of old goddesses to modern practitioners of the craft, the evolution of the idea that of “witch” has been as changeable because the centuries themselves. From evil crone to sexual seductress, they're the embodiment of either mild and darkish, fertility and dying, divinity and paganism, baleful curses and therapeutic treatments. they've been scapegoated because the item of men’s worst fears and embraced as heroines of girl empowerment. As muses, they've got stimulated pop culture from Shakespeare and Yeats to Anne Sexton and Ken Russell. With reverence and a touch of mischief, Jong unearths witches’ rites, rituals, and magical recipes, together with real spells and incantations.
 
“A steaming cauldron of superbly illustrated prose, poetry, love potions and flying creams” (Glamour) from the well known writer of Fanny, Witches is “nothing under an entire transformation of our thought of witches . . . accomplishe[d] with panache during this sumptuously and provocatively illustrated e-book" (Publishers Weekly).
 
This e-book positive aspects an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, together with infrequent images and never-before-seen records from the author’s own collection.
 

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By Melinda Black

An apathetic trip of discovering love all of the whereas finishing up in strangers beds. Melinda Black's poems are a blunt tackle her proposal of romance, damage and all the issues that come rolling in while facing issues of the center. difficult yet candy, hopeful yet nonetheless trying to hold a few common sense by way of love and intercourse. This publication takes you on a decent trip of the authors time exploring what this foul, yet attractive global has to offer.

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By Donna Lynch,Steven Archer

And while it was once performed, those appealing monsters, childrens, serpents, killers, fanatics, and moms grew to become our new saints and sisters. And, as we might quick research, they have been additionally the daughters of the unique libertine—the first appealing monster—Lilith.”—From the Introduction

Daughters of Lilith is a collaboration among poet Donna Lynch and artist Steven Archer. This full-color artwork booklet comprises greater than 25 poems and 50 work devoted to all kinds of girls, from the inspiration to the murderess.

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By Karen Finneyfrock,Mindy Nettifee,Rachel McKibbens

a set of fierce, empowering poems via dwelling, self-identified ladies writers meant for women age 12-21. choked with recommendation, critique, mirrored image, commiseration, humor, sorrow and rage, this anthology comprises poems by means of probably the most fascinating girl poets writing and appearing this present day. braveness; bold Poems for Gutsy ladies will stay in lockers, backpacks and lower than beds for years, its pages reblogged, tattooed, dog-eared and low stained.

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By Elizabethe Kelley

The poems during this assortment inhabit permeable worlds via narrative voices that stroll via an Appalachian and local background that's indelible between tales so frequently excluded from the heritage of yank tradition. They name jointly one other trip frequent to writers, traversing historical via modern texts, in order that writing, itself joins right into a dialog with the earlier that's continually earlier than us, anticipating a destiny we can't see from inside our personal cocooned human event.

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By Jeanne Marie Beaumont,Jeanne Beaumont

Burning of the 3 Fires indicates Jeanne Marie Beaumont utilizing her attribute number of innovations: dramatic monologues, lists, prose poems, item poems, and ekphrasis, to which she provides biography, elegy, and rites. This e-book takes a multifaceted examine womanhood: there are dolls, old and smooth girlhoods, mythic retellings of characters from Goldilocks to the Bride of Frankenstein, emotionally charged family trinkets, or even a talk with Sylvia Plath performed through a Magic 8- Ball.

Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the writer of Curious Conduct (BOA variations, Ltd., 2004) and the nationwide Poetry Series–winning booklet Placebo Effects. She lives in big apple City.

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By Christine Lavant,Doris Moser,Fabjan Hafner

»Ich habe eine Welt und diese Welt brennt! Und wo etwas brennt, da entsteht Kraft. Und diese Kraft reißt mit!" Christine Lavant

Christine Lavant schrieb Gedichte, die in ihrer sprachlichen Eigenwilligkeit und existentiellen Zerrissenheit für Thomas Bernhard zu den »Höhepunkten der deutschen Lyrik" zählen. Er beschrieb ihre Lyrik als »das elementare Zeugnis eines von allen guten Geistern mißbrauchten Menschen".
Lavant selbst sah ihre Kunst als »verstümmeltes Leben, eine Sünde wider den Geist, unverzeihbar" und struggle sich der poetischen Kraft ihrer Gedichte dennoch gewiss: »Wenn ich dichtete, risse ich jede Stelle Eures Daseins unter Euren Füßen weg und stellte es als etwas noch nie von Euch Wahrgenommenes in Euer innerstes Gesicht".
Der erste Band der vierbändigen Werkausgabe versammelt alle zu Lebzeiten publizierten Gedichte in einer komplett neu edierten Fassung. Er enthält neben den drei Gedichtbänden, die Lavants Ruhm begründet haben (»Die Bettlerschale", »Spindel im Mond", »Der Pfauenschrei"), auch das Frühwerk »Die unvollendete Liebe", Lavants späte, in Liebhaberausgaben und Sammelbänden veröffentlichte Lyrik (»Sonnenvogel", »Wirf ab den Lehm", »Hälfte des Herzens") sowie zahlreiche verstreute Gedichte, die erstmals wieder zugänglich gemacht werden.

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