Women's Poetry Anthology
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Women poets past and present rally together to speak about the experience of womanhood, of poetry through the eyes of a woman, and of the struggles, triumphs, and joys of their lives.
Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Lady Gregory, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Whore of Quality, Sappho, Gertrude Stein, Whitney Coy, Casey Lawrence, Linda Rosewood, Holly Payne-Strange, Alice Duer Miller, Victoria Mineva, Alexandria Tannenbaum, Bailey Grey, Judity Skillman, Tamara Holman, Fiona Richardson, Barbara Ann Meier Holtz, Ellen S. Romano, Pulkita Anand, Suzanne Morris, Elsa Gidlow, Tara Schaubert, and Judy Clarence.
Emily Dickinson
Known as “The Myth of Amherst” for her withdrawal from society while still a young women, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) had an inner life that was deeply emotional and intense. She know rapture and despair, pondered the wonder of God and the meaning of death. She broke tradition and was criticized for her seminal experiments with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter, within concise verse forms, thus becoming an innovator and forerunner of modern poets.
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