Olga Broumas

Author of Beginning with O

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Works by Olga Broumas

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Beginning with O (1977) 168 copies, 1 review

Perpetua (1989) 54 copies

Rave: Poems 1975-1999 (1999) 52 copies

Sappho's Gymnasium (1994) 41 copies

Pastoral Jazz (1983) 33 copies

Soie Sauvage (1979) 32 copies

Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (1985) 24 copies

Olga Broumas : A Listener's Guide (2000) 3 copies

Caritas 3 copies

Little Red Riding Hood (in Don't Bet on the Prince - ZIPES) 2 copies

Olga Broumas Collection 1 copy

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Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Contributor — 513 copies, 4 reviews

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 482 copies, 1 review

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose [Norton Critical Edition] (1993) — Contributor — 342 copies, 2 reviews

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 255 copies, 3 reviews

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1988) — Contributor — 190 copies, 1 review

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contributor — 124 copies

Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contributor — 117 copies, 2 reviews

My Lover Is a Woman (1996) — Contributor — 97 copies, 1 review

Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire (1997) — Contributor — 96 copies, 1 review

The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave (2000) — Contributor — 86 copies

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (2001) — Contributor — 75 copies, 2 reviews

The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (2003) — Contributor — 70 copies, 1 review

Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (1999) — Contributor — 52 copies, 1 review

The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 37 copies

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 35 copies

(Offering) My Cards To Sight (1973) — Translator, some editions — 26 copies

Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributor — 15 copies

Heresies 6: On Women and Violence (1978) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Birthdate: 1949-05-06
Gender: female
Education: University of Pennsylvania
University of Oregon
Occupations: poet
Nationality: Greece
Birthplace: Hermoupolis, Greece
Places of residence: USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Associated Place (for map): Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

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Beginning with O (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Olga Broumas

Books Read in the Past:

Greece.

This is the best of Broumas's poetry, though I imagine Adrienne Rich would find in its tightness a certain distance of the self. Broumas's later volumes range from structurally loose to experimental, some seeming to be more focused on the sounds of the poems while others are more accessible in their content.

This volume won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.

Mar 30, 2013