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Tables of Contents for No More Masks!
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xxiii
Muriel Rukeyser, The Poem as Mask 1968
xxvii
Introduction
xxix
PART ONE
. . . we're a queer lot
We women who write poetry. ---Amy Lowell
Lola Ridge, 1873--1941
from The Ghetto 1918
3
2
The Dream 1920
5
1
Amy Lowell 1927
6
1
Amy Lowell, 1874--1925
The Garden by Moonlight 1919
6
1
Interlude 1919
7
1
Autumn 1919
7
1
The Sisters 1925
8
5
Gertrude Stein, 1874--1946
from Patriarchal Poetry 1927
13
2
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 1875--1935
I Sit and Sew 1920
15
1
To Madame Curie 1921
16
1
The Proletariat Speaks 1929
16
2
Angelina Weld Grimke, 1880--1958
Caprichosa 1901
18
1
The Garden Seat n.d.
19
2
At April n.d.
21
1
Anne Spencer, 1882--1975
Lady, Lady 1925
21
1
Creed 1927
22
1
Letter to My Sister 1927
22
1
1975 1974
23
1
Sara Teasdale, 1884--1933
The Kiss 1910
23
1
The Wind 1914
24
1
I Might Have Sung of the World 1919
24
1
Water Lilies 1920
24
1
Hide and Seek 1922
25
1
Elinor Wylie, 1885--1928
Let No Charitable Hope 1928
25
1
Little Eclogue 1932
26
2
H.D. {Hilda Doolittle}, 1886--1961
Sheltered Garden 1916
28
1
from Eurydice 1917; 1925
29
3
Helen 1924
32
1
Hazel Hall, 1886--1924
Instruction 1921
32
1
Walkers at Dusk 1923
33
1
For a Broken Needle 1928
33
1
Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1886--1966
The Heart of a Woman 1927
34
1
Old Black Men 1927
34
1
When I Am Dead 1927
35
1
Marianne Moore, 1887--1972
Marriage 1923
35
7
O To Be A Dragon 1959
42
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892--1950
from Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree 1923
43
1
Menses 1928; 1939
43
2
Rendezvous 1939
45
1
An Ancient Gesture 1949
45
1
Genevieve Taggard, 1894--1948
With Child 1921
46
1
At Last the Women Are Moving 1935
47
1
No Abstraction 1941
47
2
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1941
49
1
Demeter 1945
50
1
Louise Bogan, 1897--1970
Medusa 1923
50
1
The Crows 1923
51
1
Women 1923
51
1
Betrothed 1923
52
1
Masked Woman's Song 1967
53
1
Kay Boyle, 1903--1992
A Communication to Nancy Cunard 1937
53
5
The Invitation in It, from American Citizen 1944
58
1
For James Baldwin 1970
59
1
For Marianne Moore's birthday 1970
60
1
A Poem for February First 1975 1986; 1990
60
2
A Poem on Getting Up Early in the Morning (Or Even Late in the Morning), When One Is Old 1990
62
1
Lorine Niedecker, 1903--1970
In the Great Snowfall Before the Bomb 1961
63
1
Nursery Rhyme 1962
64
1
Grandfather 1968
64
1
I Married 1976
65
1
Margaret Fuller 1976
65
1
So He Said 1976
66
1
Phyllis McGinley, 1905--1978
Why, Some of My Best Friends Are Women 1932
66
2
The 5:32 1932
68
1
Josephine Jacobson, 1908--
When the Five Prominent Poets 1967
68
1
Food 1981
69
1
The Sisters 1987
70
2
The Motion 1987
72
1
Jean Garrigue, 1912--1972
Upon the Intimation of Love's Mortality 1964
73
1
On the Legends of a Dancer 1964
73
1
Written in London After a Protest Parade 1967
74
2
Muriel Rukeyser, 1913--1980
More of a Corpse Than a Woman 1935
76
1
Night Feeding 1951
77
1
Poem Out of Childhood 1936
77
3
The Conjugation of the Paramecium 1968
80
1
Kathe Kollwitz 1971
81
5
Despisals 1973
86
1
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century 1973
87
1
For Kay Boyle 1974
87
1
Resurrection of the Right Side 1974
88
1
Ruth Stone, 1915--
In an Iridescent Time 1959
89
1
Advice 1970
89
1
How to Catch Aunt Harriette 1987
90
1
Pokeberries 1987
90
1
Father's Day 1991
91
1
Margaret Walker, 1915--
Molly Means 1942
92
2
Lineage 1942
94
1
For Gwen, 1969 1969
94
1
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917--
The Mother 1944
95
1
Jessie Mitchell's Mother 1950
96
1
To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals 1987
97
1
Naomi Replansky, 1918--
Housing Shortage 1952
98
1
Two Women 1952
99
1
I Met My Solitude 1988
99
1
May Swenson, 1913--1989
A Dream 1954
100
1
The Centaur 1956
101
3
Women 1968
104
1
Feel Me 1968
105
1
In the Bodies of Words 1979; 1987
106
1
In Love Made Visible 1991
107
4
PART TWO
The Will to Change--Adrienne Rich
Amy Clampitt, 1920--
The Burning Child 1985
111
2
Written in Water 1986
113
1
Medusa 1987
113
2
Amherst 1987; 1990
115
1
Maude Meehan, 1920--
Is There Life After Feminism 1985
116
2
Gift for My Mother's 90th Birthday 1991
118
1
Marie Ponsot, 1921--
Among Women 1981
118
1
Residual Paralysis 1981
119
1
``Love Is Not Love'' 1988
120
3
Mona Van Duyn, 1921--
Leda 1964
123
1
Leda Reconsidered 1964
124
3
The Stream 1982
127
4
Late Loving 1992
131
1
Grace Paley, 1922--
The Women in Vietnam 1973
132
1
The Sad Children's Song 1985
132
1
On Mother's Day 1985
133
1
In Aix 1989
134
1
Shirley Kaufman, 1923--
Mothers, Daughters 1969
135
1
Apples 1970
136
1
Deja Vu 1984
137
2
Notes to My Daughters 1993
139
3
Denise Levertov, 1923--
To the Snake 1958
142
1
Hypocrite Women 1962
143
1
In Mind 1962
144
1
Stepping Westward 1966
144
2
Life at War 1968
146
1
An Embroidery (I) 1971
147
1
A Woman Alone 1978
148
2
The Long Way Round 1978
150
3
Julia Randall, 1923--
To William Wordsworth from Virginia 1961
153
1
Recipes 1987
154
1
A Valediction 1987
155
1
Mitsuye Yamada, 1923--
Homecoming 1976
156
2
The Night Before Good-Bye 1976
158
1
The Club 1989
159
2
Jane Cooper, 1924--
The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience 1950; 1973
161
1
Waiting 1971
161
1
Hotel De Dream 1990
162
2
Vassar Miller, 1924--
Spinster's Lullaby 1960
164
1
Trimming the Sails 1960
164
1
On Approaching My Birthday 1968
165
1
Subterfuge 1981
165
1
Prayer to My Muse 1981
166
1
A Mourning 1991
167
1
Carolyn Kizer, 1925--
Hera, Hung from the Sky 1961
167
2
From Pro Femina 1965
169
3
Bitch 1984
172
1
The Blessing 1984
173
3
Maxine Kumin, 1925--
A Voice from the Roses 1961
176
1
After Love 1970
177
1
Louise Bourgeois Exhibit 1985
178
1
The Chain 1985
179
1
Credo 1992
180
1
The Rendezvous 1992
181
1
Anne Halley, 1928--
Housewife's Letter: to Mary 1965
182
3
Against Dark's Harm 1965
185
1
I'd Rather See Than Be One, But 1979
185
3
Cynthia Macdonald, 1928--
Instruction from Bly 1973
188
2
Objets d'Art 1973
190
1
Inheritance 1976
190
1
Anne Sexton, 1928--1974
Housewife 1961
191
1
The Abortion 1961
192
1
Consorting with Angels 1966
193
1
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife 1967
194
2
Adrienne Rich, 1929--
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 1963
196
3
Women 1969
199
1
Hunger 1974--1975
200
2
(The Floating Poem) from Twenty-One Love Poems 1974--1976
202
1
Frame 1980
203
2
XIII (Dedications) from An Atlas of the Difficult World 1990--1991
205
1
Patricia Goedicke, 1931--
In the Ocean 1980
206
2
In the Waiting Room 1980
208
1
Lucky 1986
209
2
Without Looking 1992
211
1
Colette Inez, 1931--
The Woman Who Loved Worms 1969
212
1
Warrior Daughters 1983
213
1
Absolving You 1988
214
1
Linda Pastan, 1932--
Notes from the Delivery Room 1971
215
1
After Reading Nelly Sachs 1971
216
1
Passover 1971
216
2
Duet for One Voice 1985
218
2
Sylvia Plath, 1932--1963
The Disquieting Muses 1959
220
1
Candles 1960
221
2
Daddy 1963
223
2
Wintering 1963
225
2
Anne Stevenson, 1933--
The Suburb 1964
227
1
Poem to My Daughter 1982
228
1
Diane Di Prima, 1934--
The Quarrel 1961
229
1
April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa 1975
230
1
Narrow Path Into the Back Country 1975
231
2
Poem in Praise of My Husband 1990
233
1
Audre Lorde, 1934--1992
The Woman Thing 1970
234
1
Hanging Fire 1978
235
1
Sisters in Arms 1986
236
2
Sonia Sanchez, 1934--
Poem at Thirty 1968
238
1
A Poem for My Most Intelligent 10:30 AM Class/Fall 1985 1987
239
1
A Poem for My Brother 1987
239
2
Jean Valentine, 1934--
First Love 1965
241
1
The Forgiveness Dream: Man from the Warsaw Ghetto 1979
242
1
Snow Landscape, in a Glass Globe 1989
243
1
My Mother's Body, My Professor, My Bower 1992
244
1
X 1992
244
1
Nellie Wong, 1934--
Relining Shelves 1977
245
2
Toward a 44th Birthday 1984
247
1
Colleen McElroy, 1935--
Gra'ma 1972
248
1
In My Mother's Room 1984
249
1
This Is the Poem I Never Meant to Write 1984
250
2
Queen of the Ebony Isles 1984
252
1
Foul Line---1987 1990
253
1
Lucille Clifton, 1936--
Miss Rosie 1969
254
1
Admonitions 1969
255
1
The Way It Was 1972
255
1
Turning 1974
256
1
The Thirty-eighth Year 1974
256
2
The Coming of Kali 1974
258
1
There Is a Girl Inside 1980
259
1
To My Friend, Jerina 1991
259
1
Wishes for Sons 1991
260
1
Jayne Cortez, 1936--
Rape 1982
261
1
Stockpiling 1984
262
2
June Jordan, 1936--
What Would I Do White? 1967
264
1
If You Saw a Negro Lady 1970
265
1
Case in Point 1980
266
1
Poem About My Rights 1980
267
3
1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer 1980
270
2
Some People 1989
272
1
The Female and the Silence of a Man 1989
272
1
Marge Piercy, 1936--
Noon of the Sunbather 1963
273
1
The Friend 1964
273
1
The Woman in the 1971
274
1
Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein 1985
274
2
Something to Look Forward To 1988
276
1
The Book of Ruth and Naomi 1992
277
1
Alicia Ostriker, 1937--
Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas 1975--1979
278
4
The Exchange 1984
282
1
Diane Wakoski, 1937--
Justice Is Reason Enough 1958
283
1
The Realization of Difference 1966
284
1
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons 1970
285
4
The Girls 1986
289
2
Moneylight 1991
291
2
Eleanor Wilner, 1937--
Emigration 1984
293
1
Coda, Overture 1989
294
2
Sarah's Choice 1989
296
3
Wanda Coleman, 1948--
Women of My Color 1979
299
1
Dear Mama (2) 1983
300
1
Paula Gunn Allen, 1939--
Night Vision 1982
301
1
Los Angeles, 1980 1982
302
2
Eve the Fox 1989
304
5
PART THREE
Loving in the War Years---Cherrie Moraga
Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1940--
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway 1981
309
3
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War between Races 1981
312
2
Judy Grahn, 1940--
Ella, in a Square Apron, along Highway 80, from The Common Woman 1970
314
1
My Name is Judith 1978
314
2
Hannah, from Helen You Always Were/The Factory 1982
316
1
Toi Derricotte, 1941--
The Feeding 1978
317
1
On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses 1989
318
1
Poem for My Father 1989
319
3
Irena Klepfisz, 1941--
About My Father 1975
322
1
Perspectives on the Second World War 1975
323
1
Der mames shabosim/My Mother's Sabbath Days 1990
324
2
Robin Morgan, 1941--
The Invisible Woman 1970
326
1
Heirloom 1982
326
2
Damn You, Lady 1988
328
1
Alta, 1942--
Bitter Herbs, 1969
329
1
Euch, Are You Having Your Period? 1970
330
1
First Pregnancy 1970
330
1
Penus Envy 1970
330
1
Euridice 1975
331
1
from Theme & Variations 1980
331
1
Marilyn Hacker, 1942--
The Muses 1968
332
2
Sonnet for Iva 1976; 1980
334
1
Mother II 1985
334
1
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found 1985
335
3
Nearly a Valediction 1990
338
2
Janice Mirikitani, 1942--
Soul Food 1987
340
1
Breaking Tradition 1987
341
1
Sharon Olds, 1942--
Solitary 1980
342
1
That Year 1980
343
1
The Language of the Brag 1980
344
1
Pajamas 1984
345
1
What If God 1988; 1992
345
1
The Girl 1988
346
2
First Sex 1988
348
1
Carolyn M. Rodgers, 1942--
U Name This One 1969
348
1
Some Me of Beauty 1976
349
1
Feminism 1978
350
1
Tess Gallagher, 1943--
Instructions to the Double 1976
350
2
On Your Own 1978
352
1
Spacious Encounter 1992
353
1
I Stop Writing the Poem 1992
354
1
Nikki Giovanni, 1943--
Seduction 1968
354
1
Adulthood 1968
355
2
Legacies 1973
357
1
Louise Gluck, 1943--
Pomegranate 1975
357
1
Mythic Fragment 1985
358
1
Brown Circle 1990
359
1
Susan Griffin, 1943--
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman 1970
360
2
Song My 1971
362
1
An Answer to a Man's Question, ``What Can I Do About Women's Liberation?'' 1976
363
1
Sunday Morning 1987
364
2
Linda McCarriston, 1943--
A Castle in Lynn 1991
366
1
Hotel Nights with My Mother 1991
367
1
Revision 1991
368
1
Sandra McPherson, 1943--
Pregnancy 1970
369
1
For Elizabeth Bishop 1982
370
1
At the Grave of Hazel Hall 1988
371
3
Pat Parker, 1944--1989
For Willyce 1973
374
1
There Is a Woman in This Town 1973; 1978
375
2
Love Isn't 1985
377
1
Minnie Bruce Pratt, 1944--
Motionless on the Dark Side of the Light 1989
378
1
Poem for My Sons 1989
379
2
Alma Luz Villanueva, 1944--
To Jesus Villanueva, with Love 1977
381
3
Witches' Blood 1977
384
1
Alice Walker, 1944--
Women 1973
385
1
The Thing Itself 1984
385
2
Ingrid Wendt, 1944--
The Newest Banana Plant Leaf 1973
387
1
Mussels 1987
387
2
After a Class in Seaweed 1993
389
1
Lucha Corpi, 1945--
Emily Dickinson 1980
390
1
Winter Song 1990
391
1
Sharon Doubiago, 1946--
Self 1977
392
1
From the Waitress Papers 1977
393
1
Father 1982
394
2
Marilyn Nelson Waniek, 1946--
Levitation with Baby 1985
396
2
A Strange Beautiful Woman 1985
398
1
The House on Moscow Street 1990
398
2
AI, 1947--
She Didn't Even Wave 1979
400
1
The Man with the Saxophone 1985
401
1
Ellen Bass, 1947--
In Celebration 1973
402
1
Vaginas of Women 1977
403
1
Tampons 1977
404
3
I Didn't Know 1978
407
1
For Barbara, Who Said She Couldn't Visualize Two Women Together 1984
408
1
Cheryl Clarke, 1947--
Hair: A Narrative 1983
409
3
Wearing My Cap Backwards 1986
412
1
Linda Hogan, 1947--
Daybreak 1983
413
1
Friday Night 1985
414
1
The Truth Is 1985
415
2
Molly Peacock, 1947--
So, When I Swim to the Shore 1984
417
1
Our Room 1984
417
1
Smell 1984
418
1
Ntozake Shange, 1948--
Its Happenin/But You Dont Know Abt It 1978
418
2
Advice 1978
420
1
Olga Broumas, 1949--
Eye of Heart 1989
421
1
Touched 1989
422
1
Rachel Hadas, 1949--
Yes, But 1987
423
2
Pass It On, II 1989
425
2
Teaching Emily Dickinson 1989
427
1
Carolyn Forche, 1950--
427
5
Burning the Tomato Worms 1976
432
3
The Island 1976--78; 1981
Jorie Graham, 1951--
The Way Things Work 1980
435
1
From the New World 1991
436
3
Joy Harjo, 1951--
Anchorage 1983
439
2
The Book of Myths 1990
441
1
Rita Dove, 1952--
The Great Palaces of Versailles 1986
442
1
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed 1989
443
1
Arrow 1989
444
1
Cherrie Moraga, 1952--
For the Color of My Mother 1983
445
2
Loving in the War Years 1983
447
1
Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952--
Hugging the Jukebox 1980; 1982
448
2
Blood 1986
450
1
Mary Jo Salter, 1954--
Welcome to Hiroshima 1985
451
1
Emily Wants to Play 1989
452
2
Chernobyl 1989
454
1
Thylias Moss, 1955--
There Will Be Animals 1989
455
1
The Party to Which Wolves Are Invited 1990
456
1
Chitra Divakaruni, 1956--
Making Samosas 1991
457
2
Visit 1991
459
2
End Poem
Adrienne Rich, Final Notations 1991
461
2
Biographies
463
14
Permissions
477