Contents

• The applicant /Sylvia Plath
• The father of my country /Diane Wakoski
• K˜äthe Kollwitz ;Not to be printed, not to said, not to be thought /Muriel Rukeyser
• Planetarium ;Diving into the wreck ;Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev /Adrienne Rich
• The ballad of the lonely masturbator /Anne Sexton
• The anniversary / Alicia Ostriker
• personal letter #2 ;a poem for my father /Sonia Sanchez
• Miscarriage ;10 commandments for liberation ;Euridice /Alta
• miss rosie ;the lost baby poem /Lucille Clifton
• At the end of the affair /Maxine Kumin
• O’Keeffe retrospective /May Swenson
• Why I died /Erica Jong
• Sappho’s reply / Rita Mae Brown
• 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?" /Susan Griffin
• Quotations from charwoman me ;Matrilineal descent / Robin Morgan
• Objets d’Art /Cynthia MacDonald
• For my sister Molly who in the fifties /Alice Walker - -"You say I am mysterious" /Elsa Gidlow
• The nuisance ;Rape poem /Marge Piercy
• For Willyce / Pat Parker
• Death camp ;They did not build wings for them /Irena Klepfisz
• Susan’s photograph /Jean Valentine
• Eat rice have faith in women ;Yesterday / Fran Winant
• A woman is talking to death /Judy Grahn
• Annunciation /Diane Di Prima
• The history of my feeling /Kathleen Fraser
• Semele recycled / Carolyn Kizer
• Gesture /Beverly Dahlen
• To my daughter the junkie on a train ;A litany for survival ; A poem for women in rage /Audre Lorde
• Elegy / Marilyn Hacker
• Poem: on declining values ;Roman poem number six ;Case in point /June Jordan
• Living alone (I) ;LIving alone (II) ;Epilogue /Denise Levertov
• Rhyme of my inheritance ;Song ;Some unsaid things /Joan Larkin
• Pomegranate ;Dedication to hunger /Louise Gl˜ück
• Eve of Easter /Bernadette Mayer
• Polemic #1 ;First time: 1950 /Honor Moore
• "i am a woman in ice" /Martha Courtot
• After touch /Jan Clausen
• Lady tactics /Anne Waldman
• Caritas /Olga Broumas
• Burning the tomato worms / Carolyn Forché
• A California girlhood ;The goddess who created this passing world /Alice Notley
• "She had ruby red lacquer on her fingernails" ;"Wanting you " ;Honesty /Maureen Owen
• Don’t cheapen yourself / Jana Harris
• Anti-short story ;Tone /Rae Armantrout
• The nursery /Fanny Howe
• In knowledge of young boys /Toi Derricotte
• Women’s work / Michelle Cliff
• Nessie /Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Many junipers, heartbeats ;Under the Zanzariere / Jane Miller
• Satan says /Sharon Olds
• Coral Sea, 1945 /Carol Muske-Dukes
• Among women /Marie Ponsot
• She lays /Molly Peacock
• Metaphors of women / Katha Pollitt
• The green notebook /Jane Cooper
• San Sepolcro /Jorie Graham
• Unleashed ;Joan / Eileen Myles