Introduction, Honor Moore
Sylvia Plath
The Applicant
Diane Wakoski
The Father of My Country
Muriel Rukeyser
Käthe Kollwitz
Not To Be Printed, Not To Be Said, Not To Be Thought
Adrienne Rich
Planetarium
Diving into the Wreck
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
Anne Sexton
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
Alicia Ostriker
The Anniversary
Sonia Sanchez
personal letter #2
a poem for my father
alta
Miscarriage
10 commandments for liberation
Euridice
Lucille Clifton
miss rosie
the lost baby poem
Maxine Kumin
At the End of the Affair
May Swenson
O’Keeffe Retrospective
Erica Jong
Why I Died
Rita Mae Brown
Sappho’s Reply
Susan Griffin
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Three Poems for Women
An Answer to a Man’s Question, “What Can I Do About Women’s Liberation?”
Robin Morgan
Quotations from Charwoman Me
Matrilineal Descent
Cynthia Macdonald
Objets d’Art
Alice Walker
For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties
Elsa Gidlow
“You say I am mysterious”
Marge Piercy
The Nuisance
Rape Poem
Pat Parker
For Willyce
Irena Klepfisz
Death Camp
They Did Not Build Wings for Them
Jean Valentine
Susan’s Photograph
Fran Winant
Eat Rice Have Faith in Women
Yesterday
Judy Grahn
A Woman Is Talking to Death
Diane Di Prima
Annunciation
Kathleen Fraser
The History of My Feeling
Carolyn Kizer
Semele Recycled
Beverly Dahlen
Gesture
Audre Lorde
To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train
A Litany for Survival
A Poem for Women in Rage
Marilyn Hacker
Elegy
June Jordan
Poem: On Declining Values
Roman Poem Number Six
Case in Point
Denise Levertov
Living Alone (I)
Living Alone (II)
Epilogue
Joan Larkin
Rhyme of My Inheritance
Song
Some Unsaid Things
Louise Glück
Pomegranate
Dedication to Hunger
Bernadette Mayer
Eve of Easter
Honor Moore
Polemic #1
First Time: 1950
Martha Courtot
“i am a woman in ice”
Jan Clausen
After Touch
Anne Waldman
Lady Tactics
Olga Broumas
Caritas
Carolyn Forché
Burning the Tomato Worms
Alice Notley
A California Girlhood
The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
Maureen Owen
“She had ruby red lacquer on her fingernails”
“Wanting You”
Honesty
Jana Harris
Don’t Cheapen Yourself
Rae Armantrout
Anti-Short Story
Tone
Fanny Howe
The Nursery
Toi Derricotte
In Knowledge of Young Boys
Michelle Cliff
Women’s Work
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Nessie
Jane Miller
Many Junipers, Heartbeats
Under the Zanzariere
Sharon Olds
Satan Says
Carol Muske-Dukes
Coral Sea, 1945
Marie Ponsot
Among Women
Molly Peacock
She Lays
Katha Pollitt
Metaphors of Women
Jane Cooper
The Green Notebook
Jorie Graham
San Sepolcro
Eileen Myles
Unleashed
Joan
Biographical Notes
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