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Book Recommendations
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Female Writers
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
Still another controversial biography that rips into Sylvia Plath
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The Complete Poems by
Anne Sexton
This book comprises her ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer
Prize-winner--"Live or Die".
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100 Great Poems by Women : A Golden Ecco Anthology
the 100 best poems by women, from the 15th century to the present.
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Ain't I A Woman! : A Book of Women's Poetry from Around
the World
One hundred and fifty poems from around the world and across the ages cover
themes of motherhood and youth, race and loss, sex and love.
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World's Wife
by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy has published four highly praised collections of poetry.
Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize.
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Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems
"one of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry -
any poetry - for years" Eavan Boland, Independent on Sunday
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Stopping for Death : Poems of Death and Loss by Carol Ann Duffy
Eighty poems highlight the battling and varied emotions that death can
inspire, an anthology of women's poetry.
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Poems
by Anne Sexton
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Rough Magic : A Biography of Sylvia Plath by Paul Alexander
Second biography of Plath
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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956,
this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited,
annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.
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My Life Asleep
by Jo Shapcott
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The Dream of a Common Language : Poems, 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich
This collection of poems from 1974 to 1977 is written by one of America's
most successful and most moving modern poets.
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Selected Poems 1960-1990 by Maxine Kumin
This collection by a versatile elegist and observer of nature features vivid
poems that are, refreshingly, about something.
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Always Beginning : Essays on a Life in Poetry by Maxine Kumin
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Once I Gazed at You in Wonder : Poems by Jan Heller Levi
From the Back Cover "This is such a brave first book of poems! Levi
delves into utmost intricacies of origins and destinies, as in mother, as in
father, as in husband, as in self bound and un-bounded: A deeply lyrical
pursuit sustained by an astonishing intelligence. . . " June Jordan.
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Haruko/Love Poems : Love Poems by June Jordan
Midwest Book Review: Never before has there been a single volume of love
poetry so extraordinary in range.
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Telling the Barn Swallow : Poets on the Poetry of Maxine
Kumin
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Missing in Action and Presumed Dead
African Women Writers
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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young
Feminists by Carol Ann Duffy
these are witty, sophisticated, nonmessagey poems. They are angry, funny,
tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery.
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Whispering Winds and Ministering Fires by Joan G. Caldwell
a collection of inspirational verse by accomplished writer and lyricist Joan
Caldwell
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Midnight Salvage : Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich
An impressive new volume. . . . Rich's admirers will recognize the complex symbiosis
between the activist and the maker of new language, each propelling,
describing, provoking the other's words. Publishers Weekly
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