Explores modern humanity's relationship with death as reflected in literature, history, and society, evaluating how perceptions about death and the experience of grief have changed, citing the influence of such events as Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and theSeptember 11 attacks.

A collection of sonnets by the American Book Award-winning poet ponders the nature of belongings as possessions, as the reflections of a life, and as the places where life takes place in a volume that also features the writer's memories of a childhood home, her mourning for her mother, and more.

Product Description: Since its publication in 1985, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the exuberant variety of women's writing in English from the medieval period to the present day...read more

In this collection of essays, 22 writers, historians, theologians and feminists thoughtfully reflect on their own personal experiences with the Catholic Church. The essayists describe how they have, or in some cases have not, come to terms with a church that does not permit them full participation. In so doing, they offer practical suggestions for ways in which the Church can become more open to the concerns of its progressive members. Radford Ruether, who provides a brief history of 20th-century reform movements; internationally-known journalist Mary Kenny, who writes on the abortion debate in Ireland; Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais, who discusses her youth in parochial schools; short-story writer and New Yorker contributor Jean McGarry, who describes the clash of Catholic and secular cultures; and Grail co-founder Janet Kalven, who depicts the history of this widely recognized religious reform movement. Ebest provide context for these personal and poignant essays. In a format that is easily accessible to general readers, Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? explores issues of concern to progressive and feminist Catholics, including abortion, birth control, clerical celibacy and the ordination of women. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Winner of the American Book Award in the year 2000, for her collection Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, Sandra M. Gilbert now brings us The Italian Collection: Poems of heritage.

Brings together the complete fictional writings of the nineteenth-century Louisiana writer, in a collection that reflects the author's observations about propriety, love and marriage, slavery, war, and empowered women.

Encompassing three decades of distinguished work, a remarkable anthology presents a selection of poetry from The Fourth World, Emily's Bread, Blood Pressure, and Ghost Volcano, as well as an array of recent works exploring the themes of grief, survival, and regeneration. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Loss and sorrow are key themes in this collection of poems and elegies by Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, W. S. Merwin, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millary, and Stanley Kunitz, among others. (view table of contents)

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Two teachers recall the summer of 1943 spent building bombers for the war effort, learning to deal with a wide variety of people, endure life in a factory, and negotiate the tricky new relationships between genders in this formerly male-dominated setting. Original. (view table of contents)

A selection of poetry written in memory of her late husband, especially the central work, 'Widow's Walk,' captures the poet's journey through the stages of grief as she tries to understand his death and celebrate his life. Reprint. LJ. PW.

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Collects the novels, stories, poems, essays, memoirs, diaries, and letters of more than 170 writers--American, English, Canadian, and others writing in English

A collection of poems celebrates motherhood with works on pregnancy, childbirth, raising children, and loss by such poets as William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Ellizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, and Sylvia Plath.

Writing about the loss of her husband during routine prostate surgery--an unexplained 'wrongful death'--the author examines the legal questions surrounding such an event and shows how vulnerable we are to the power of the medical establishment.