First published 1995
Carolyn Kizer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, assembled this anthology as the second installment in the Golden Ecco Anthology series. The collection spans five centuries of women's poetry, opening with an anonymous fifteenth-century poet and continuing through contemporary voices. Kizer includes towering figures like Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Gertrude Stein alongside modern masters such as Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amy Clampitt, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, and Thylias Moss. The anthology balances celebrated poets with lesser-known writers who labored in obscurity, offering readers both familiar masterworks and surprising discoveries from eccentric voices across the centuries.
Genres: anthologies, 20th-century, poetry, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, underdog
Period: 15th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
200 pages · Paperback · Ecco