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No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women

by Florence Howe (Editor), Ellen Bass (Editor)

Other authors: Helen Adam (Contributor), Fleur Adcock (Contributor), Alta (Contributor), Margaret Atwood (Contributor), Susan Axelrod (Contributor)90 more, Anita Barrows (Contributor), Ellen Bass (Contributor), Phyllis Beauvais (Contributor), Louise Bogan (Contributor), Kay Boyle (Contributor), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contributor), Rita Mae Brown (Contributor), Helen Chasin (Contributor), Carole Gregory Clemmons (Contributor), Lucille Clifton (Contributor), Jane Cooper (Contributor), Ranice Henderson Crosby (Contributor), H. D. (Contributor), Madeline DeFrees (Contributor), Diane Di Prima (Contributor), Mona Van Duyn (Contributor), Mari Evans (Contributor), Ruth Fainlight (Contributor), Elaine Feinstein (Contributor), Elizabeth Fenton (Contributor), Nicole Forman (Contributor), Kathleen Fraser (Contributor), Carole Freeman (Contributor), Nikki Giovanni (Contributor), Ann Gottlieb (Contributor), Judy Grahn (Contributor), Susan Griffin (Contributor), Anne Halley (Contributor), Peggy Henderson (Contributor), Sandra Hochman (Contributor), Colette Inez (Contributor), Elisabeth Jennings (Contributor), June Jordan (Contributor), Lenore Kandel (Contributor), Shirley Kaufman (Contributor), Faye Kicknosway (Contributor), Carolyn Kizer (Contributor), Maxine Kumin (Contributor), Denise Levertov (Contributor), Dorothy Livesay (Contributor), Audre Lorde (Contributor), Amy Lowell (Contributor), Cynthia Macdonald (Contributor), Margo Magid (Contributor), Phyllis McGinley (Contributor), Sandra McPherson (Contributor), Eve Merriam (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), Vassar Miller (Contributor), Marianne Moore (Contributor), Robin Morgan (Contributor), Pauli Murray (Contributor), Rochelle Owens (Contributor), Grace Paley (Contributor), Miriam Palmer (Contributor), Marge Piercy (Contributor), Sylvia Plath (Contributor), Cathleen Quirk (Contributor), Julia Randall (Contributor), Judith Rechter (Contributor), Naomi Replansky (Contributor), Adrienne Rich (Contributor), Wendy G. Rickert (Contributor), Suzanne Berger Rioff (Contributor), Carolyn M. Rodgers (Contributor), Muriel Rukeyser (Contributor), Sonia Sanchez (Contributor), E. N. Sargent (Contributor), May Sarton (Contributor), Anne Sexton (Contributor), Penelope Shuttle (Contributor), Stevie Smith (Contributor), Kathleen Spivack (Contributor), Gertrude Stein (Contributor), Jane Stembridge (Contributor), Anne Stevenson (Contributor), Ruth Stone (Contributor), Lynn Strongin (Contributor), Lynn Sukenick (Contributor), Susan Sutheim (Contributor), May Swenson (Contributor), Margo Taft (Contributor), Jean Tepperman (Contributor), Rhea Tregebov (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), Beatrice Walter (Contributor), Ingrid Wendt (Contributor), Wendy Wieber (Contributor), Elinor Wylie (Contributor)

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"This volume presents for the first time the continuing tradition of feminist consciousness as expressed in poetry by women. Here 87 women poets of this century write disctinctively for and about women, on issues both private and public, such as war, poverty, racism, sexuality, childbirth and abortion."--Back cover.… (more)
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D., H.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Sanchez, SoniaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Strongin, LynnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Tregebov, RheaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Walter, BeatriceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask,
on their mountain, gold-hunting, singing, in orgy,
it was a mask; when I wrote of the god,
fragmented, exiled from himself, his life, the love gone down with song,
it was myself, split open, unable to speak, in exile from myself.

There is no mountain, there is no god, there is memory
of my torn life, myself split open in sleep, the rescued child
beside me among the doctors, and a word
of rescue from the great eyes.

No more masks! No more mythologies!

Now, for the first time, the god lifts his hand,
the fragments join in me with their own music.

Muriel Rukeyser, 1971
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"No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women" was published in 1973 and edited by Florence Howe and Ellen Bass. The revised and expanded edition "No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets" was published in 1993 and edited by Florence Howe (without Ellen Bass).
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"This volume presents for the first time the continuing tradition of feminist consciousness as expressed in poetry by women. Here 87 women poets of this century write disctinctively for and about women, on issues both private and public, such as war, poverty, racism, sexuality, childbirth and abortion."--Back cover.

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Modern female poets discuss their personal priorities and dreams and express their views on social issues.
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