Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology / edited by Ruth Lepson with Lynne Yamaguchi ; introduction by Mary Loeffelholz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lepson, Ruth.

Fletcher, Lynne Yamaguchi.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Illinois poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist poetry, American.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Summary:

For much of its history Sojourner was the most widely circulated feminist literary journal in America, and more than 1,200 poems have appeared in its pages since it began publication in 1975. Nearly 150 of those poems are collected in this volume, where together they form a powerful testament to the vibrancy, wit, and diversity of feminist poetry. In addition to works by such well-known poets as Molly Peacock, Nikki Giovanni, Betsy Sholl, and Adrienne Rich, this collection includes poems by women from a host of different backgrounds, including many whose work appeared in print for the first time in Sojourner. Some of these poems explode with energy, others speak with a haiku-like softness; some discuss love, lust, and sexuality, while others deal with loss, divorce, and revenge. The voices collected here are old and young, rural and urban, straight and gay, from mothers and daughters to wives, lovers, and countless others, all contributing to this anthology's wide-ranging conversation about feminism and feminist poetics.

Contents:

Introduction / Mary Loeffelholz

Kathleen Aguero

Looking for Another Version

Working Mother

Nadya Aisenberg

The Woman in the Moon

Alma Stacey Allen

Road Trip

Carol Arber

Sketching in Barnstable

Rebecca Baggett

Barely Eight

Carol Baker

Your Going

Jane Barnes

Passion at Forty

Ellen Bass

All the Trees

Robin Becker

Incarnate

The Subject of Our Lives

Selective Memory

T Begley, Olga Broumas

Sappho's Gymnasium

Sally Bellerose

Bye Bye Barbara

Deborah Boe

Jigsaw Puzzle

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

Landscape

Polly Brown

This Is for Megan

Ruth Buchman

Short Story

Claudia Buckholts

Old Woman Reclining

Leslie Burgess

The Prostitute's Notebook

Carli Carrara

On Weekends

Naomi Feigelson Chase

He Comes to Lie Down

Plenty

My Mother, Listening to Flowers

Eli Clare

Learning to Speak

This Familiarity

Lynne Cohen

Body Doubled

Martha Collins

Re:composition

Elizabeth Crowell

Portraits of the Ladies

Cortney Davis

What Man Might Kill

Carol Dine

Excerpts from "Fugue"

Rita Dove

Sonnet in Primary Colors

Frances Driscoll

Real Life

Nancy Esposito

Doing Good

Liz Fenton

Places

Caroline Finkelstein

Persephone's Notes

Afterthought

Casus Belli

Janice Finney

Lightning and Thunder

Sarah Fox

Interruption

Kathleen Fraser

One is whole. One is not

Erica Funkhouser

Lilies

Kinereth Gensler

Bowl with Pine Cones.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology.

ISBN:

0252028856

9780252028854

0252071549

9780252071546

OCLC:

51968865