No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women
by Florence Howe (Editor), Ellen Bass (Editor)
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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.Tags
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Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the dangerous days of the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a feminist publishing house at a time when books for and about women were few. Sustained by her friendships with iconic show more writers like Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, and Marilyn French, she traveled the world as an emissary for women's empowerment. Howe is a teacher and activist; she is the co-founder of the Feminist Press, a past president of the Modern Language Association, and a central organizer of the international women's movement. show less
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- No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women
- Epigraph
- Orpheus
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 li... (show all)fe, 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 - Dedication
- to our sisters
in jail
underground
at war
whose lives are their poems - First words
- This is not the last word on women poets.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- "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 pu... (show all)blished in 1993 and edited by Florence Howe (without Ellen Bass).
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 811.008 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry Specific kinds of poetry {only by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts
- LCC
- PS589 .H6 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Poetry
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