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Ain't I a woman! : classic poetry by women from around the world
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Ain't I a woman! : classic poetry by women from around the world

Author: Illona Linthwaite
Publisher: Lincolnwood, Ill. : Contemporary Books, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
Summary:
Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to modern South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, motherhood, injustice, loss, and racial and sexual oppression. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Poetry
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Illona Linthwaite
ISBN: 0809225344 9780809225347
OCLC Number: 42038217
Description: xxiii, 264 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Sherley Anne Williams --
Jenny Joseph --
Zindziswa Mandela --
Mary Wilson --
Cheryl Clarke --
U.A. Fanthorpe --
Jean Tepperman --
Nurunnessa Choudhury --
Susan Wallbank --
Nancy Morejon --
Sandy McIntosh --
Anna Maria Lenngren --
Nikki Giovanni --
Mary Lonnberg Smith --
Noemia da Sousa --
Nurunnessa Choudhury --
Mahsati --
Julia Vinograd --
Alice Walker --
Maria Banus --
Chirlane McCray --
Margaret Reckord --
Mririda N'ait Attile --
Nilene O.A. Foxworth --
Taiwo Olaleye-Oruene --
Magaly Sanchez --
Nancy Morejon --
Dinah Livingstone --
Teresita Fernandez --
Huang Ho --
Villana --
Nina Cassian --
Jennifer Brown --
Tina Reid --
Mary Dorcey --
Kath Fraser --
Audre Lorde --
Mary Dorcey --
Alice Walker --
Gillian E. Hanscombe --
Audre Lorde --
Christine Craig --
Maureen Burge --
Dinah Butler --
Margaret Randall --
Marge Piercy --
Anon --
Tina Reid --
Dazzly Anderson --
Christine Donald --
Charmaine Crowell --
Christine Donald --
Valerie Bloom --
Maureen Burge --
Grace Nichols --
Anon --
Bella Akhmadulina --
Sappho --
Christine Craig --
Lady Anne Lindsay --
Eva Toth --
Anna Wickham --
Sila --
Elaine Feinstein --
Anna Wickham --
Sumangala's Mother --
Anon. --
Maya Angelou --
Lady Ise --
Rosemary Tonks --
Desanka Maksimovic --
Judith Kazantzis --
Nurunnessa Choudhury --
Christine de Pisan --
Gabriela Mistral --
Huang Ho --
Nina Cassian --
Mahsati --
Sandra Kerr --
Genevieve Taggard --
Yosano Akiko --
Maureen Hawkins --
Grace Nichols --
Susan Wallbank --
Kim Nam Jo --
Elizabeth Jennings --
Gabriela Mistral --
Judith Kazantzis --
Tahereh Saffarzadeh --
Rafaela Chacon Nardi --
Penelope Shuttle --
Mwana Kupona Msham --
Judith Kazantzis --
Otomo no Sakanoe --
Mary Dorcey --
Mary Mackey --
Clara Ann Thompson --
Moira O'Neill --
Penelope Shuttle --
Anna Wickham --
Denise Levertov --
Nagase Kiyoko --
Katherine Gallagher --
Nancy Morejon --
Mary Dorcey --
Elaine Feinstein --
Dinah Butler --
Jean Lipkin --
Margaret Reckord --
Dinah Butler --
Suniti Namjoshi --
Sappho --
Carole E. Gregory --
Michelene Wandor --
Frances E.W. Harper --
Gillian E. Hanscombe --
Suniti Namjoshi --
Eunice de Souza --
Michelene Wandor --
Nurunnessa Choudhury --
Mary Mackey --
Anna Akhmatova --
Christine Craig --
Michelle T. Clinton --
U.A. Fanthorpe --
Marsha Prescod --
Himani Bannerji --
Grace Nichols --
Sojourner Truth --
Margaret Reckord --
Nancy Morejon --
Grace Nichols --
Frances E.W. Harper --
Margaret Atwood --
Teresita Fernandez --
Yolanda Ulloa --
Anna Akhmatova --
Katherine Gallagher --
Irina Ratushinskaya --
Margaret Randall --
Rita Boumi-Pappas --
Grace Nichols --
Rita Boumi-Pappas --
Nilene O.A. Foxworth --
Wendy Poussard --
Judith Kazantzis --
Pat Arrowsmith --
Deborah Levy --
Jayne Cortez --
Wendy Poussard --
Nilene O.A. Foxworth --
Lourdes Casal --
Noemia da Sousa --
Irina Ratushinskaya --
Ch'iu Chin --
Anoma Kanie --
Nilene O.A. Foxworth --
Denise Levertov --
Dinah Livingstone --
Jean Lipkin --
Daisy Yamora --
Irina Ratushinskaya --
Jenny Joseph --
Pat Arrowsmith --
Astra --
Marge Piercy --
Christine Donald --
Li Ch'ing-Chao --
Yolanda Ulloa --
Denise Levertov --
Michele Roberts --
Eleni Fourtouni --
Nilene O.A. Foxworth --
Anon. --
Susan Wallbank --
Anon. --
Stef Pixner --
Anon. --
Juana de Ibarbourou --
Maya Angelou --
Elizabeth Jennings --
Gwendolyn Brooks --
Sappho --
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Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to modern South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, motherhood, injustice, loss, and racial and sexual oppression. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya, and Alice Walker.

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