The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women

by Erin Belieu and Susan Aizenberg

Book Overview

A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, The Extraordinary Tide synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. Long overdue, the anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting new artists of contemporary verse.

Featuring recent work by poets as aesthetically diverse as Ai, Jane Kenyon, Ann Lauterbach, Carolyn Forch , and Leslie Scalapino,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119631
• ISBN13: 9780231119634
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

For Those Who Love Poetry and American Women Writers!

This book was designed by women about women but it's for all of us. The editors, Susan Aizenberg and Eric Belieu with a foreword by Eleanor Wilner. The poetry are written by some known and some unknown poets. The poetesses include the following: Marjorie Agosin; Ai; Susan Aizenberg; Sandra Alcoser; Elizabeth Alexander; Pamela Alexander; Julia Alvarez; Angela Ball; Dorothy Barresi; Erin Belieu; LInda Bierds; Chana Bloch; Michelle Boisseau; Catherine Bowman; Lucie Brock-Broido; Olga Broumas; Teresa Cader; Marilyn Chin; Lucille Clifton; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Martha COllins; Jane Cooper; Kate Daniels; Madeline DeFrees; Toi Derricotte; Deborah Digges; Rita Dove; Nancy Eimers; Lynn Emanuel; Angie Estes; Kathy Fagan; Candice Favilla; Carolyn Forche; Alice Fulton; Tess Gallagher; Amy Gerstler; Patricia Goedicke; Beckian Fritz Goldberg; Jorie Graham; Linda Gregorson; Linda Gregg; Marilyn Hacker; Rachel Hadas; Kimiko Hadas, Susan Hahn; Brenda Hillman; Jane Hirshfield; Linda Hogan; Janet Holmes; Fanny Howe; Marie Howe; Lynda Hull; Barbara Jordan; Allison Joseph; Brigit Pegeen Kelly; Jane Kenyon; Mary Kinzie; Carolyn Kizer; Maxine Kumin; Ann Lauterbach; Dorianne Laux; Cleopatra Mathis; Gail Mazur; Heather McHugh; Lynne McMahon; Sandra McPherson; Jane Miller; Susan Mitchell; Thylias Moss; Lisel Mueller; Laura Mullen; Carol Muske; Marilyn Nelson; Alice Notley; Naomi Shihab Nye; Sharon Olds; Jacqueline Osherow; Alicia Suskin Ostriker; Linda Pastan; Molly Peacock; Lucia Perillo; Marie Ponsot; Minnie Bruce Pratt; Claudia Rankine; Hilda Raz; Martha Rhodes; Adrienne Rich; Mary Ruefle; Kay Ryan; Mary Jo Salter; Leslie Scalapino; Grace SChulman; Maureen Seaton; Rebecca Seiferle; Vivian Shipley; Aleda Shirley; Betsy Sholl; Maurya Simon; Cathy Song; Elizabeth Spires; Pamela Stewart; Susan Stewart; Ruth Stone; Stephanie Strickland; Teresa Svoboda; Ann Townsend; Chase Twichell; Leslie Ullman; Jean Valentine; Mona Van Duyn; Ellen Bryant Voigt; Belle Waring; Rosanna Warren; Rachel Wetzsteon; Susan Wheeler; Elinor Wilner, and C.D WRight. The book concludes with a brief biography of each contributor.