Description: Poems in Forgotten Women, written by some of today's most insightful poets, celebrate the lives and work of women who have been unacknowledged or underappreciated. This magnificent anthology tells the stories of artists and scientists, sharp-shooters and factory workers, homemakers and athletes. In so doing, it helps fill in the gaps of history.
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"It's hard to imagine any woman who would not delve into this volume with yearning and respond to the irrepressible spirits of both the subjects and the poets assembled here. The subjects are painters, entomologists, and lighthouse keepers; deeply domestic and fervently alone; lesbian and straight; happy and tormented. The anthologized poets allow their subjects to speak from the grave in an elegant act of prosopopoeia, and one of Vivian Shipley's "Radium Girls" might speak for them all: try as we might to condemn, ignore or scrub her clean, '...you will still inhale my history.' ' -Christine Palm, women's rights public policy advocate, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women; author of What the Dead Know: Bringing to Young Audiences the Work of Seven Modernists Buried in New England
The poems in this anthology celebrate the lives and work of women who have been unacknowledged and/or underappreciated. They sing the praises of those who have, too often and for too long, gone unsung, and in doing so, fill in the gaps in history with a chorus of remembrance. -Grace Bauer, author of The Women At The Well and Mean/Time
Forgotten Women is an anthology that serves two great purposes: it honors, celebrates, and presents women's lives...across time, across status and race, and it showcases the power of the poetry inspired by women. In an era where you'd think that that women's lives would always be celebrated or considered, we find that women's lives and stories are often disrespected and dismissed. Ginny Lowe Connors has brought together poems of astounding diversity from poets as varied as their subjects, thus allowing the reader to find and learn about women little known or to see in a radically different way ones who are better-known. The generosity of these words show these women are remembered, not forgotten, and you should remember them too. -Patricia Spears Jones, author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems