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Feminist Studies | Feminist Studies

felicia-mitchell's picture
Nov.17.2008
This collection includes poems that give voice to women in paintings, sculptures, and photographs.  Each title is the title of a well-known work of art, or nude.  For example, "Nudist Lady with Swan Sunglasses" connects the famous photograph by Diane Arbus invoked by the title with the...
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.23.2008
A thousand years ago, Japanese women court poets created a written aesthetic of unmatchcd elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication in haiku and tanka about romance, family life, sexuality, divorce, loneliness, politics and the West. This first-ever...