Bibliograph

A poem of her own, voices of American women yesterday and today, edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

Type

Label

A poem of her own, voices of American women yesterday and today, edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A poem of her own

Oclc number

50477312

Responsibility statement

edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn

Sub title

voices of American women yesterday and today

Summary

Presents a collection of more than twenty poems by American women published between 1678 and 2001

Table Of Contents

Author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- Hymn to the evening / Phillis Wheatley -- Brown thrush / Lucy Larcom -- I dwell in possibility / Emily Dickinson -- Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- New-England boy's song about Thanksgiving / Lydia Maria Child -- New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- I sit and sew / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Women / Louise Bogan -- Stanzas in meditation; part four, #9 / Gertrude Stein -- Jessie Mitchell's mother -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bears / Adrienne Rich -- Her kind / Anne Sexton -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Good hotdogs / Sandra Cisneros -- What do women want? / Mary Jo Salter -- Girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni -- By accident / Julia Alvarez -- Road through the woods / Marge Piercy -- Women who came before us / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Poet biographies

Target audience

adolescent

Classification