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Marilyn Sewell is a Unitarian minister interested in celebrating the sacredness of women's lives. Her previous work was a collection of writings about women's spirituality. Here, she collects the works of the very best contemporary women poets (Maxine Kumin, Nikki Giovanni, Rita Dove, and Tess Gallagher, among others) to create a kaleidoscope of shifting women's experiences. Some of those experiences are universal, of course. The inevitability of death, say, or the difficulties of relationships, aren't experiences exclusive to women's lives (though men and women will often experience these things differently). The book is most fascinating when it does focus on experiences that are exclusive to women. There are poems about miscarriages, giving birth, and how women's bodies change through the years.
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From Publishers Weekly
Not so terse are the 300 poems by contemporary women poets (Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Anne Sexton, Tess Gallagher among them) collected by Marilyn Sewell in Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry. With only a brief introduction, the poems, arranged in sections titled Generations, Work, Mothering, etc., are allowed to speak for themselves.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
