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231 pages ; 17 cm |
| Summary |
From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of "aging while female." |
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Insult (When you don't recognize yourself in the mirror). 42 AND female / Sarah Silverman -- That it is a road / Ariwara no Narihira -- Solitaire / Deborah Landau -- Being called ma'am / Faith Shearin -- Tired sex / Chana Bloch -- Self-portrait at 38 / Jennifer Tonge -- Mirror / Sylvia Plath -- Tell us a story, Grandma / Natalie Wise -- The young / Roddy Lumsden -- From Herakles / Euripides -- 35/10 / Sharon Olds -- Into my heart an air that kills / A.E. Housman -- The difference between despair / Emily Dickinson. Injury (When you realize aging is a thing). November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- What the flesh is heir to / Moira Egan -- The balloon of the mind / William Butler Yeats -- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Not flashing but waving / Moira Egan -- Mammogram / Jo McDougall -- At the gynecologist's / Linda Pastan -- At fifty / Eric Rawson -- Minutes, years / Deborah Landau -- A human calculation / Deborah Garrison -- Fixed interval / Devin Johnston -- Why you travel / Gail Mazur -- From Epodes / Horace -- From The Testament / Francois Villon -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- what they did yesterday afternoon / Warsan Shire -- Down Time's quaint stream / Emily Dickinson. Defiance (When you think you can make it all go away). Indian Summer / Dorothy Parker -- You see, I want a lot / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Gold lipstick and the end of summer / Melissa Broder -- The bearded woman / Jane Hirshfield -- there is a girl inside / Lucille Clifton -- Wig, rouge, honey / Gaius Lucilius -- Selected "Plastic surgery haiku" / Amy Poehler -- Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson -- Snow White turns 39 / Anne Sheldon -- To be of use / Marge Piercy -- Lifeguard / Claudia Emerson -- what resembles the grave but isn't / Anne Boyer. Dread (When you realize you can't even). I don't have a pill for that / Deborah Landau -- Bruises / Jane Hirshfield -- Matins / Louise Gluck -- Ever / Meghan O'Rourke -- Lines written on the eve of a birthday / Kelly Cherry -- Porcupine meditation / Margaret Atwood -- Waking up / Zhu Shuzhen -- Coda / Dorothy Parker -- it was a dream / Lucille Clifton -- "Long live the weeds" / Theodore Roethke. Grit (When you find a way to live with yourself). From the Sulta Nipata -- Dawn revisited / Rita Dove -- Love after love / Derek Walcott -- People who eat in coffee shops / Edward Field -- sugar is smoking / Jason Schneiderman -- Caroline County / Elizabeth Ash Velez -- Mele in Gabbia / Jane Hirshfield -- Woman, mined / Carolyn Creedon -- Strewn / Barbara Crooker -- A wife explains why she likes country / Barbara Ras -- Walking in the woods / Grace Paley -- Old Mary / Gwendolyn Brooks -- What the living do / Marie Howe -- Today / Frank O'Hara -- I dwell in possibility / Emily Dickinson. Grace (When you find a way to live in the world). Coming up into the light / Julie Williams -- The gate / Marie Howe -- Milkweed / James Wright -- Postscript / Seamus Heaney -- The conditional / Ada Limon -- Green apples / Ruth Stone -- A little tooth / Thomas Lux -- From The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- From Song of Myself / Walt Whitman -- Japanese maple / Clive James -- Of mere being / Wallace Stevens -- Solstice poem, iv / Margaret Atwood -- Here / Grace Paley. |
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Aging -- Poetry.
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Older women -- Poetry.
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Esselman, Mary D., editor.
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Velez, Elizabeth Ash, editor.
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Silverman, Sarah.
42 AND female.
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Landau, Deborah, Ph.D.
Solitaire.
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Shearin, Faith.
Being called ma'am.
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Bloch, Chana, 1940-.
Tired sex.
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Plath, Sylvia.
Mirror.
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Wise, Natalie.
Tell us a story, Grandma.
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Lumsden, Roddy, 1966-.
The young.
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Euripides.
Heracles.
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Olds, Sharon.
35/10.
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Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936.
Into my heart an air that kills.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
The difference between despair.
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McDormand, Frances.
Laugh lines.
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Crapsey, Adelaide, 1878-1914.
November night.
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Egan, Moira, 1962-
What the flesh is heir to.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
The balloon of the night.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
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Egan, Moira, 1962-
Not flashing but waving.
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McDougall, Jo.
Mammogram.
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Pastan, Linda, 1932-
At the gynecologist's.
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Rawson, Eric.
At fifty.
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Landau, Deborah, Ph.D.
Minutes, years.
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Garrison, Deborah.
A human calculation.
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Johnston, Devin.
Fixed interval.
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Mazur, Gail.
Why you travel.
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Horace.
Epodae. Selections.
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Villon, François, 1431-1463.
Grant testament. English. Selection.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889.
Pied beauty.
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Shire, Warsan, 1988-
what they did yesterday afternoon.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Down Time's quaint stream.
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Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
Indian Summer.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
You see I want a lot.
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Broder, Melissa.
Gold lipstick and the end of summer.
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Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-.
The bearded woman.
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Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
There is a girl inside.
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Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C.
Wig, rouge, honey.
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Poehler, Amy, 1971-
Plastic surgery haiku.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Much madness is divinest sense.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Snow White turns 39.
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Piercy, Marge.
To be of use.
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Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014.
Lifeguard.
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Boyer, Anne, 1973-
What resembles the grave but isn't.
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Landau, Deborah, Ph.D.
I don't have a pill for that.
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Paley, Grace.
Here.
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Schneiderman, Jason.
Sugar is smoking.
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Howe, Marie, 1950-
The gate.
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Landau, Deborah, Ph.D.
Bruises.
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Glück, Louise, 1943-
Matins.
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O'Rourke, Meghan.
Ever.
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Cherry, Kelly.
Lines written on the eve of a birthday.
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Atwood, Margaret.
Porcupine meditation.
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Zhu, Shuzhen.
Waking up.
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Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
Coda.
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Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
It was a dream.
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
Long live the weeds.
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Dove, Rita.
Dawn revisited.
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Walcott, Derek.
Love after love.
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Field, Edward, 1924-
People who eat in coffee shops.
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Velez, Elizabeth Ash.
Caroline County.
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Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-
Mele in Gabbia.
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Creedon, Carolyn.
Woman mined.
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Crooker, Barbara, 1945-
Strewn.
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Ras, Barbara.
A wife explains why she likes country.
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Paley, Grace.
Walking in the woods.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
Old Mary.
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Howe, Marie, 1950-
What the living do.
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O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.
Today.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
I dwell in possibility.
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Williams, Julie, 1948 September 2-
Coming up into the light.
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Wright, James, 1927-1980.
Milkweed.
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
Postscript.
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Limón, Ada.
The conditional.
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Stone, Ruth.
Green apples.
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Lux, Thomas, 1946-2017.
A little tooth.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Tempest. Selections.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
From song of myself.
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James, Clive, 1939-
Japanese maple.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
Of mere being.
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Atwood, Margaret.
Solstice poem iv.
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| Added Title |
Poems for the not so young anymore |
| ISBN |
9781455567003 (hbk.) |
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1455567000 (hbk.) |
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