Love Poems by Women

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For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. To date, however, anthologies have printed very little of it. Love Poems By Women is a first of its kind, revealing the female poet's varied use of a genre that has historically belonged to men.
These writers express love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, and friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland. Often, the female poet's emotions on the subject of love are more earthy or playful than those of her male counterpart, and much more wide-ranging. Here are poems in a striking array of moods and modes: rejection, rage, and ecstasy, argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance.
Women poets from all ages and all parts of the world are included:
® Sappho ® Anna Akhmatova ® Emily Dickenson ® Medakse • Aphra Behn ® Bessie Smith ® Ono no Komachi • Maya Angelou
• Shadab Vajdi ® Emily Bronte ® Ho Xuan Huong • Christine de Pisan ^ Alice Walker ® Princess Zeb-un-Nissa ® Dorothy Parker ®... Tovább

Fülszöveg

For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. To date, however, anthologies have printed very little of it. Love Poems By Women is a first of its kind, revealing the female poet's varied use of a genre that has historically belonged to men.
These writers express love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, and friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland. Often, the female poet's emotions on the subject of love are more earthy or playful than those of her male counterpart, and much more wide-ranging. Here are poems in a striking array of moods and modes: rejection, rage, and ecstasy, argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance.
Women poets from all ages and all parts of the world are included:
® Sappho ® Anna Akhmatova ® Emily Dickenson ® Medakse • Aphra Behn ® Bessie Smith ® Ono no Komachi • Maya Angelou
• Shadab Vajdi ® Emily Bronte ® Ho Xuan Huong • Christine de Pisan ^ Alice Walker ® Princess Zeb-un-Nissa ® Dorothy Parker ® Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz » And of course "Anon," who the editors feel is frequently female
Ancient Greek lyrics, 12th-century Japanese court poetry, medieval Celtic fabliaux, English mystical, bawdy and dramatic verse, Country-and-Western song lyrics-all are represented in this encyclopedic anthology They bear eloquent testimony to the passion and desire, humor and resignation, ecstasy and despair, that shape the experience of love as women know it. Vissza