Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire

by Emma Donoghue

Book Overview

With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231109245
• ISBN13: 9780231109246
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Treasure Trove

this book is fabulous! Emma Donoghue's introduction provides fascinating contextual information, guiding the reader through attitudes toward love between women from the late 1660s to the early 1990s. The poems themselves fairly leap off the page with lives of their own. Donoghue selected poems which are quite accessible and widely varied. I did have some trouble getting past the melodrama of some of the earlier work, but once I did, I discovered many, many truly delightful poems illuminating the myriad aspects of women's love for one another. At the end of the book is a section of biographical notes about the poets which is intriguing on its own. This volume would be an asset to anyone's library.