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Twenty-five years of 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 are: Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhmatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Molly Peacock, Eleanor Wilner, Wislawa Szymborska, and Elizabeth Woody.The Stream of ItThey might say, a white bird in the snow,And study it for years.When the lacquer bucket breaks,water is everywhere.But water already is everywhere,& salt; this much I understandor hope.The binding shadow, orange,of an orange peel;sky painted through the hip of a cow.What the painters learn is a river,eye to hand,the color of earth & mind the same,& its shadow.Still it_s an unending struggleto put it down,even the best of them leavingpalettes like battlefields_an unending struggle just to see what is,when vision keeps breaking like wateracross a stone, a constant rushing,and light is a salmon,always returning, blindly, to its source._Jane Hirshfield"From here will come our literary heritage."_John Berry, Editor-in-chief, Library JournalMargarita Donnelly is a founding editor of CALYX. She received the American Book Award for editing The Forbidden Stitch. She has co-edited four other anthologies for CALYX Books that include: Women and Aging, Florilegia, A Line of Cutting Women, and Bearing Witness/ Sobreviviendo. Beverly McFarland is Senior Editor of CALYX. Micki Reaman is Managing Editor of CALYX.

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Twenty-five years of 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 are: Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhmatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Molly Peacock, Eleanor Wilner, Wislawa Szymborska, and Elizabeth Woody.