A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Poetry

Poetry. Twenty-five years’ prize-winning poetry selected from CALYX JOURNAL, this outstanding collection presents a diversity of poets who illuminate a poetic tradition in women’s literature that was submerged during much of the 20th-century. Here women’s voices pierce that obscurity with a fierce and dazzling brightness that is expansive, fertile, joyous, and powerful. Included among the more than 50 poets Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhamatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Molly Peacock, Eleanor Wilner, Wislawa Szymorska, and Elizabeth Woody. “From here will come our literary heritage”-John Berry, Editor-in chief, Library Journal. “When the lacquer bucket breaks,/ water is everywhere./ But water already is everywhere,/ & salt; this much I understand/ or hope”-Jane Hirshfield, from “The Stream of It.”