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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Anne Sexton	Anne Sexton	A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia.	OL11600588W
Emily Dickinson	Cynthia Griffin Wolff	Cynthia Griffin Wolff gives us a brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals the relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of he…	OL149398W
Beliefs and blasphemies	Virginia Hamilton Adair	Beliefs and Blasphemies exhibits the same qualities--accessibility, deep feeling, wisdom, humor, and technical brilliance--that made Virginia Hamilton Adair's first collection of poems, Ants on the M…	OL14957560W
Lives like loaded guns	Lyndall Gordon	Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagina…	OL15568619W
The complete poems of Emily Dickinson	Emily Dickinson	The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.	OL16033097W
Women on Poetry	Carol Smallwood,Cynthia Brackett-Vincent	"This collection of 59 essays captures the wit and wisdom of published contemporary female poets, who reveal their victories and struggles with writing. Topics include the collective writing life, ti…	OL16342619W
Pain, parties, work	Elizabeth Winder	In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees …	OL17311518W
Passion-flowers	Julia Ward Howe	Julia Ward Howe's first collection of poetry, published in 1853, including poems with political, romantic, and Transcendental themes.	OL1797984W
Women poets in pre-revolutionary America, 1650-1775	Pattie Cowell	x, 404 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm	OL19498077W
The Bright Hour	Nina Riggs	Riggs provides a memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' after her terminal cancer diagnosis.	OL19721897W
Amherst	William Nicholson	"From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson. Alic…	OL19993230W
Aphrodite's daughters	Maureen Honey,Maureen Honey	"Aphrodite's Daughters brings to dramatic life three lyrical poets of the Harlem Renaissance whose work was among the earliest to display erotic passion as a source of empowerment for women. Angelina…	OL20037612W
The Terrible Stories	Lucille Clifton	The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.	OL2166423W
Burnt offerings	Cathy Warner	"Burnt Offerings is filled with poems about life and death, family and faith, hope and despair, creativity and questions. From Billy Collins and Smokey the Bear to Jesus, from kombucha to the Euchari…	OL24189570W
The Body's Alphabet	Ann Tweedy	“Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you,” writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no lon…	OL24507359W
We have saved what we can	Ann Day	"Ann Day was born in 1927 in Malta where her father was stationed in the British Royal Navy. She spent her summers and the first years of the war at La Haule Manor on the Channel Island of Jersey, th…	OL24762888W
Emily Dickinson	Carol Dommermuth-Costa	Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.	OL2727921W
The Liars' Club	Mary Karr	The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and t…	OL2745581W
The prisoner's wife	asha bandele	As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life f…	OL54963W
Recollections of my life as a woman	Diane di Prima	""My earliest sense of what it means to be a woman was learned from my grandmother, Antoinette Mallozzi, and at her knee.... She smelled of lemons and olive oil, garlic and waxes and mysterious herbs…	OL568703W