A Song of Lilith is a collection of poetry by Joy Kogawa, highlighted with artwork by Lilian Broca. Kogawa is a Japanese-Canadian author, currently living in Toronto, Ontario. She is perhaps best known for her award-winning novel Obasan.
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While reading Blaeser's poems, we jump from the Boundary Waters to the Alaskan Arctic to the desert Southwest to urban Wisconsin. Seemingly, we are in the present, but unquestionably connected to a past and a future rooted in Blaeser's Anishinabe culture on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
Beyond abortion, Lucille Clifton's poetry is about racism, illness, death, gender, and ultimately human experiences. Her poem "dialysis" is powerful. She writes, "after the cancer i was so grateful/ to be alive. i am alive and furious./ Blessed be even this?"
A young woman looks back on the past and finds her place within the future in Celeste Guzmán's autobiographical book of poems, Cande, Te Estoy Llamando. Guzmán's 16 manic and delicate poems are centered about family and circle around problems of marriage, parenthood, gender roles, and the vulnerable relationships that form amongst family.
Audre Lorde presented herself as she was. Her poetry reveals the raw human emotion in her life, from having children, to the outstanding crimes being committed in our society. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde contain ten volumes of Lorde's poetry, more than 300 poems. They range in length from being quaint four-lined poems, to longer, more detailed, lasting up to several pages. This book also includes early poetry repeatedly appearing later in other volumes, to show revisions made by Lorde.
In Fishing for Myth, a collection of poems by Heid E. Erdrich, the readers are able to take part in the poet's exploration of myths that are grounded together in the experience of everyday life and memory. For Erdrich, the myths that she writes in her poems become part of everyday life. It is as though she is letting us in on a very juicy secret that she is telling us in installments. I get the feeling that Heid Erdrich has only just begun to tell us her secrets through poetry.
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Author Sheila Sanchez Hatch portrays herself as the eternal adolescent, the precocious girl who eschewed innocent play to instead pore over her journals with melancholy tales of forgotten love and death.
A typical situation in the 1820s: a heartless slave owner takes advantage of his slave women, producing mulatto children that are also kept as slaves. Dove reverses this situation by creating the character of Amalia, a white, married woman in charge of a plantation, who has an affair with an African slave and chooses to give up her son for fear of his life.
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It might be said that a modern city is a mass of humanity but also a mass of inhumanity. A place of people and things, seemingly in harmony yet oblivious to each other and to their surroundings. A place where Thoreau noted "the masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation." It is in this city that Dionne Brand stages a collection of poems in a book titled Thirsty.
Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, Anita Endrezze's third book, tells her family history through a complex and skillfully-woven web of political theorizing, historical fact, short stories, and poetry. Born in California to a full-blooded Yaqui Indian father and European mother, Endrezze explores the Native side of her family history, and the history of the Yaqui people as a whole.
Lorna Goodison’s sixth collection of poetry, To Us, All Flowers Are Roses, explores themes of motherhood, the history of slavery in Jamaica, and the magical healing powers of the organic splendors of the Caribbean experience.
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