I hear my sisters saying : poems by twentieth-century women / edited by Carol Konek and Dorothy Walters.

This resource Includes indexes of titles of poem (pages 279 - 281) , an index of poets included in this resource (282 - 283) and an index of the first lines (pages 284 - 286). Additionally, this resource contains Biographies of the poets (pages 263 - 278). Finally, this resource includes a Copyright acknowledgement section (pages 287 - 295)

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Part one. It took my childhood before I could see / The will's love / By Besmilr Brigham -- Childhood / By Margaret Walker -- The girl in the willow tree / By Carolyn Maisel -- Sunday Afternoon / By Denise Levertov -- The Grace of Cynthia's maidenhood / By Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio -- Spring / By Ruth Whitman -- Nikki-Rosa / By Nikki Giovanni -- The way it is / Gloria Oden -- On Approaching my birthday / By Vassar Miller -- Mother / By Sharon Mayer Libera -- Letter to my mother / By Anita Skeen -- Foxfire / By Nancy Willard -- The nude on the bathroom wall / By Gena Ford -- A woman mourned by daughters / By Adrienne Rich -- Woman skating / By Margaret Atwood -- The question / By Muriel Rukeyser -- All the dead dears / By Sylvia Plath -- Daring / By Carol Konek -- The beekeeper's daughter / By Sylvia Plath -- Portrait of the father / By Lindy Hough -- A poem for my father / By Sonia Sanchez -- Legacy / By Gena Ford -- A way of keeping / By Nancy Willard -- The moss of his skin / By Anne Sexton --

Part two. This man, this stranger / With selections from Barbara Howes, Paula Reingold, Lisel Mueller, Ruth Whitman, Mary Norbert Korte, Ann Meneboker, Alice Walker, Lyn Lifshin, Maxine Kumin, Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio, Joyce Carol Oates, Denise Levertov, Suzanne Juhasz, Maya Angelou, Jeanine Hathaway --

Part three. I am trying to think how a woman be a rock / With selections from Diane Wakoski, Lyn Lifshin, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Lila Arnold, Faye Kicknosway, Adrienne Rich, Diane Wakoski, Denise Levertov, Virginia Gilbert, Phyllis, Beauvais, Eve Merriam, May Swenson, Nancy Price, Maxine Kumin, Rita Mae Brown, Deborah Munro, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jane Cooper --

Part four. What have I made / With selections from Constance Urdang, Kathleen Fraser, Joyce Carol Oates, Helen Chasin, Colette Inez, Sylvia Plath, Mary Gordon, Ann Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jeanine Hathaway, Susan Mcdonald--

Part five. Sister, let the rain come down / With selections from Gail Fox, Rita Mae Brown, Carolyn Maisel, Kathleen Spivack, Louise Bogan, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Mayer Libera, Phyllis Janik, June Jordan, Jacqueline Lapidus, Lynn Strongin, Anita Skeen, Jane Chambers, Robin Morgan, Besmilir Brigham, Suzanne Juhasz, Margery Himel --

Part six. Does the patient die if nobody knows / With selections from Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Naomi Long Madgett, Marge Piercy, Mari E. Evans, Margaret Atwood, Kathleen Norris, Faye Kicknosway, Lynn Butler, Mona Van Duyn, Robin Morgan, Louise Bogan, Carolyn Maisel, Nancy Willard --

Part seven. Now you are my literary ghost / With selections from Marge Piercy, Elsa Gidlow, Helen Chasin, Barbara Howes, Rita Mae Brown, Velma West Sykes, Collette Inez, Sonia Sanchez, Anne Hazlewood-Brady, Erica Jong, Alta, Ann Sexton, Dorothy Walters --

Part eight. We are the human beautiful who walk on water / With selections from Elaine Edelman, Julia Vinograd, Kath Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Atwood, Mari E.Evans, Diana Di Prima, Vassar Miller, Gena Ford, Mary Fabilli, Vinni-Marie D'Ambrosio, Ellen Pearce, Faye Kicknosway, Adrienne Rich, CLarice Short --

Part nine. I was born awake / With selections from Lynne Lawner, Muriel Rukeyeser, Gloria Oden, Phyllis Janik, Barbara Moraff, Dorothy Walters, Kathleen Norris, Helga Sandburg, Geraldine Hammond, Helen Sorrells, Josephine Miles, Lisel Mueller, Deborah Munro --

Part ten. Only where there is language in there world / With selections Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Ann Stanford, Anita Skeen, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith McCombs, Helen Chasin, Hannah Kahn, Ellen Pearce, Sarah Youngblood, Barbara Howes, Carolyn Kizer, Dorothy Walters, Sarah Youngblood, Denise Levertov.

"Today's women are deeply engaged in a process of self-discovery, challenging outworn notions of female identity and searching within to find and develop their true potential. The poems in this anthology, contributed by both prominent and less well known contemporary female poets, give eloquent expression to this struggle. Each section of 'I Hear My Sisters Saying' is devoted to a different stage of women's development and experience. Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio and Besmilr Brigham are among the poets included in the first section, entitled, "It took my childhood before I could see"; Maxine Kumin, Lyn Lifshin, and Lisel Mueller offer their thoughts on "This man, this stranger in my arms"; disillusionment is treated by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Mari E. Evans, and Mona Van Duyn; Gwendolyn Brooks and Susan MacDonald look at bearing and abortion; relationships with other women are studied by June Jordan, Robin Morgan, and Lynn Strongin; Helen Chasin, Alta, and Rita Mae Brown are among the poets who examine their craft in a chapter on poetry; and Vassar Miller, Faye KIcknosway, and Helga Sandburg add their voices to those offering hope. In all, nearly 170 poems by more than 90 poets are included. The poets in 'I Hear My Sisters Saying' share in their remarkable capacity to articulate the female experience in contemporary, yet universal terms. The poems take light from one another, each exposing to view a special fragment of women's experience. Together they form the completed tapestry of women's lives." -- from book jacket