A book-length poem in seven parts by award-winning author Mary Oliver.

Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old...

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. In poems such as "Six, Sex, Say," she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife "with a barrage of...

In 1985, Judy Grahn boldly declared that lesbians have a poetic tradition and mapped it from Sappho to the present day in the groundbreaking book The Highest Apple. With her characteristic ferocious intellect, passion for historical research, careful close readings, and dynamic storytelling, Grahn situated poetry by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, H.D., Gertrude Stein, Adrienne Rich Paula Gunn Allen, Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, and Olga Bromas as...

Presents over two hundred poems written by American women poets, drawn from a period that ranges from the colonial era through the twentieth century.

"War is Over We Are Unbound; Poetry Armor for the Times We in the Americas' Now! is a volume of poetry and creative prose expressions in Naima's all-inclusive voice, the syntax and grammar is her own African American language acquisition device. The poems move in and out of the past and present racial traumas for all melanins carrying our rhythms, jazz, primal sounds, blues that has gone, the healing of our ancestral racial traumas, race consciousness...