Company of Women: New and Selected Poems - download pdf or read online

3 ladies, who interact as poets, current a set in their paintings. those poems are insightful, frank, and humorous.

"'Traveling via this assortment is like having 3 sisters, 3 daughters, 3 moms whispering their such a lot precious secrets and techniques to you. You emerge on the finish softer, wiser and replete with hope.' -- David Shumate, writer of excessive Water Mark and The Floating Bridge."

“'Welcome to a scrumptious, heady mixture of song and private event. all through, the traces are sumptuous and but disciplined, like that well-made mattress of ear and eye that Auden steered to us. by no means has it been really easy to like poetry, to go into the poem and discover its spacious rooms, to soak up complicated blends of joys and losses. Sensory notes are in every single place packed into those poems––our poems now, because the reader takes them in. it truly is heartening to remind ourselves that the corporate of ladies poets is flourishing, that those embodied voices are beneficiant, dependent, and fierce.' -- Marilyn Kallet, Director, artistic Writing application, collage of Tennessee, writer of the affection That strikes Me."

“'It’s destiny, those 3, spinning insightful insights—lyrical narratives—from the holy textile, pricking on the threads of time. corporation of ladies is the corporate that you simply continue, that retains you coming, that retains you corporation. those poems tailor and weave. They clew, and so they clue. They dart, they usually skirt. They hem, they usually awe.' -- Michael Martone writer of Michael Martone and 4 for a Quarter."