No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets

10 best books like No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (Florence Howe): In Mad Love and War, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, Mother Love, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, The Unswept Room, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium

AuthorJoy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe (“a stolen people in a stolen land”), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they...
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0393312380
This is my introduction to Audre Lorde's writing, and, though this collection was a tad overly political in nature for me, I still found my way to the juicy parts of her poetry.

On writing:

I cannot recall the words of my first poem
but I remember a promise
I made my pen
never...
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0393314448
Just pulled this collection off my shelves and dove into it, and by the third poem or so wondered what took me so long to find it and actually read it.

The poems in this volume are tough but delicate. Dove's use of imagery and voice are stunning; I'm drawn into the ways in which Dove weaves her personal...
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0385479174
Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, "The...
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN1400030935
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas...
AuthorAliki Barnstone
ISBN0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of...
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375709983
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.

From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520208641
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry....
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN0918526590
Unbelievable. Clifton had just laid out the guide to being alive, female, and Black in the US through her poetry and memoir. Poetry has never moved me as much as this, and I've never read so much from and about a person in such a short amount of time. All the work of navigating the world, ourselves, our families,...
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393310825
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.


The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156766205
Alice Walker's poems are magically simple. Some witty, some sad, while others just reflective of Walker's youth but all reminiscent of times lost but remembered!

"And for ourselves, the intrinsic
“Purpose” is to reach, and to remember,
and to declare our commitment to all
...
AuthorSam M. Intrator
ISBN0787969702
Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty...
AuthorCherríe L. Moraga
ISBN0896084663
A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Highly...
A Brief History of Time
AuthorShaindel Beers
ISBN1844715051
"A Brief History of Time," Beers' first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles-from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works. The characters/speakers...
AuthorKenneth Koch
ISBN0060955090
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry

When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout...
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0394738594
“The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships...
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