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" A poem of her own : "
edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
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BL
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593498
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b422717
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| Title & Author
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A poem of her own : : voices of American women yesterday and today /\ edited by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
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79 pages :: color illustrations ;; 26 cm
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0810942402
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: 9780810942400
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: 1853839531
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: 9781853839535
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: 1853839523 (pbk.)
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: 9781853839528 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Includes biographies (pages 64-78)
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Illustrations painted on acid-free paper, using light-fast casein paints, without the use of preliminary sketches
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| Contents
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Author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- Hymn to the evening / Phillis Wheatley -- Brown thrush / Lucy Larcom -- I dwell in possibility / Emily Dickinson -- Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- New-England boy's song about Thanksgiving / Lydia Maria Child -- New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- I sit and sew / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Women / Louise Bogan -- Stanzas in meditation; part four, #9 / Gertrude Stein -- Jessie Mitchell's mother / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bears / Adrienne Rich -- Her kind / Anne Sexton -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Good hotdogs / Sandra Cisneros -- What do women want? / Mary Jo Salter -- Girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni -- By accident / Julia Alvarez -- Road through the woods / Marge Piercy -- Women who came before us / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Poet biographies
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| Abstract
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Presents a collection of more than twenty poems by American women published between 1678 and 2001
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Women-- United States, Juvenile poetry
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| Dewey Classification
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811.008/09287
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PS589.P635 2003
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Clinton, Catherine,1952-
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Alcorn, Stephen
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