| Description |
xxi, 330 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"Following the success of their anthology, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Kaui Hart Hemmings, and Joan Baez to Nikki Giovanni, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Donal of by anonymous / Natascha McElhone -- Isn't that something? by Rumi / Elif Shafak -- Bani Adam by Sa'adi / Nazanin Boniadi -- The angels at the tavern door by Hafiz / Ladan Boroumand -- Grief gille the room up from King John by William Shakespeare / Marina Warner -- Extract from the duchess of Malfi by John Webster / Janet Suzman -- On my first son by Ben Jonson / Katherine Bucknell -- Clerk Saunders by anonymous / Diana Athill -- Frost at midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Helen Macdonald -- I loved the boy... by William Wordsworth / Pam Ayres -- So we'll go no more a roving by Lord Byron / Judi Dency and Emily Mortimer -- Ode to Nightingale by John Keats / Marina Lewycka -- Extract from the masque of anarchy by Pecy Bysshe Shelley / Tena Stivicic -- Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Erica Jong -- About Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt / Joan Baez -- I am by John Clare / Helen Pankhurst -- Sonnets from the Portugese: XXVII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / A. L. Kennedy -- Say not the struggle naught availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough / Margaret Drabble -- The charge of the light brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Wendy Cope -- Facing west from California's shores by Walt Whitman / Irma Kurtz -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes- by Emily Dickinson / Siri Hustvedt -- I took my power in my hand by Emily Dickinson / Elena Ferrante -- The world- feels dusty by Emily Dickinson / Joyce Didonato -- The walrus and the carpenter by Lewis Carrol / Bella Freud -- Life is but a dream / Victoria Coren Mitchell. |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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American poetry.
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Women -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Holden, Anthony, 1947- editor.
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Holden, Ben, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781501121852 (hardback) |
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