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Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers’ notions of what defines erotic poetry.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of “The Dream of a Common Language” and “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law” writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.
“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’ ” Few students responded.
