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Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality

Denise Levertov
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This rich and diverse sourcebook of poetry and prose celebrates women's spirituality in its many forms and is dedicated, above all, to the sacredness of the ordinary, to embodied life.

More than three hundred poems and a few prose pieces by modern writers such as Maya Angelou, Annie Dillard, Denise Levertov, Marge Piercy, and Alice Walker, and earlier writers such as Hildegard of Bingen and Margaret Fuller, offer new insights into the realm of the spirit. Here women's voices fill the traditional silence about matters central to women's experience, from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to cooking, caretaking, and household rituals to miscarriage, death, and lesser losses. The writings collected in this anthology represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women—a vision that is life-giving and partakes of the world of earth and flesh.

Organized thematically, Cries of the Spirit can be used as a sourcebook for public rituals, group gatherings, or personal reflection.


Owning self. Unlearning to not speak ; The woman in the ordinary / Marge Piercy --
Shameless hussy / Alta --
Woman and nature / Susan Griffin --
Variation on a theme by Rilke ; Stepping westward / Denise Levertov --
The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser --
Outrage / Lucille Iverson --
Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller --
Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett --
Now I become myself / May Sarton --
I am running into a new year / Lucille Clifton --
Listen / Linda Lancione Moyer --
Lilith and the doctor / Kathleen Norris --
The journey / Mary Oliver --
The irises / Jeanne Foster --
Blue morning glory / Anne Pitkin --
Housing shortage / Naomi Replansky --
Aging / Erica Jong --
Advice / Ruth Stone. The imperative of intimacy. Prayer for revolutionary love / Denise Levertov --
Out of my time / Marya Mannes --
Councils / Marge Piercy --
To have without holding / Marge Piercy --
Paris and Helen / Judy Grahn --
Pornography and silence / Susan Griffin --
Growing together / Joyce Carol Oates --
After love / Maxine Kumin --
A thought / Linda Hogan --
New mother / Sharon Olds --
Dancing the shout to the true gospel or The song Movement sisters don't want me to sing / Rita Mae Brown --
Late autumn / May Sarton --
The way towards each other / Jeni Couzyn --
Blossom / Mary Oliver --
To drink / Jane Hirshfield --
Medicine ; Love is not concerned / Alice Walker --
The hug / Tess Gallagher --
Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni --
Feast Day / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Ironing their clothes / Julia Alvarez --
7:3 ; 2:7 / Alta --
The big heart / Anne Sexton --
Centering / Mary Caroline Richards. Mothering. Advent / Kathleen Norris --
Early morning woman / Joy Harjo --
Poems for the new / Kathleen Fraser --
Magnificat / Chana Bloch --
The wife takes a child / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Birth / George Ella Lyon --
Rising to meet it / Chana Bloch --
Now that I am forever with child / Audre Lorde --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Lorelei / Alta --
Unspoken / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Happy Birthday / Alicia Ostriker --
Mothers, daughters / Shirley Kaufman --
The bad mother / Susan Griffin --
Black mother woman / Audre Lorde --
February 13, 1980 / Lucille Clifton --
One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Mother / Sharon Mayer Libera --
Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher --
35/10 / Sharon Olds. Generations. Dandelion greens / Jane Flanders --
Keeping hair / Ramona Wilson --
Matmiya / Mary TallMountain --
For two who slipped away almost entirely / Alice Walker --
Legacies / Nikki Giovanni --
Whitecaps / Betsy Sholl --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
Poem to my grandmother in her death / Michele Murray --
Five poems for grandmothers / Margaret Atwood --
Spring fragments / Betsy Sholl --
Prologue / Audre Lorde --
Poem at thirty-nine / Alice Walker --
The envelope / Maxine Kumin --
Eggs ; The moment / Sharon Olds --
Three sweatshop women / Nanying Stella Wong --
A poem about faith / Kathleen Norris --
The will's love / Besmilr Brigham --
What is repeated, what abides / Barbara Hendryson --
Elegy / Maya Angelou. Death and lesser losses. The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Ten years ago / Eileen Moeller --
Unborn child elegy ; Country woman elegy / Margaret Gibson --
Flowers / Kathleen Fraser --
104 ; 3:1 / Alta --
My grandfather / Joanne Hotchkiss --
Lynn / Jeanne Foster --
Easter, 1968 / May Sarton --
What hell is / Heather McHugh --
Mama Rosanna's last bead-clack / Laurel Speer --
Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
"Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" / Alice Walker --
Finding the lamb / Rebecca Newth --
Aunt Lucy / Jane Gentry --
Apples / Shirley Kaufman --
In the house of the dying / Jane Cooper --
In flight / Jennifer Regan --
Grandmother / Marilyn Krysl --
Betrothed / Louise Bogan --
Some slippery afternoon / Daniela Gioseffi --
Gift from the sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh --
Waiting / Jane Cooper --
The cancer journals / Audre Lorde --
Gestalt at sixty / May Sarton --
Ebba Dawson : Mardel Rest Home, Haskell, New Jersey / Maria Gillan --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Testimony ; Planting onions / Jane Flanders --
Survivors / Chana Bloch --
The poem as a reservoir for grief / Tess Gallagher --
In the midst of winter / Mary Jane Moffat --
In Blackwater Woods / Mary Oliver --
Anxiety about dying / Alicia Ostriker --
Sonnet 2 from "The Autumn Sonnets" ; All souls / May Sarton. Songs of brokenness and alienation. Crazy quilt / Jane Wilson Joyce --
Silence. She is six years old / Lynn Emanuel --
Greg's got custody of Sally / Julia Alvarez --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
The journey / Lillian Smith --
Solstice poem / Margaret Atwood --
Moving / Jeanne Foster --
Misguided / Harriet Brown --
Christmas letter, 1970 / May Sarton --
Town I left / Helen Sorrells --
S M / Alice Walker --
My mother, who came from China, where she never saw snow / Laureen Mar --
Lady on a bus / Jeanne Lohmann --
I check my parent's house / Julia Alvarez --
The history of my feeling / Kathleen Fraser --
Hand games ; The friend / Marge Piercy --
Housewife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer --
Homes of single women / Susan B. Anthony --
The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir --
Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn / Tess Gallagher --
Clearing the air / Nancy Willard --
Farmwife / Betsy Sholl --
The victim / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Killers of the dream / Lillian Smith --
Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni --
Watts / Shirley Kaufman --
Yom Kippur / Chana Bloch. The will toward the good. To a milkweed / Deborah Digges --
Memoirs, I / Margaret Fuller --
To softness / Laurie Sheck --
This morning / Muriel Rukeyser --
The gardener / Robin Becker --
The woman with the wild-grown hair relaxes after another long day / Nita Penfold --
When he came / Dorothee Sölle --
Prayer for a tenspeed heart / Barbara Hendryson --
Aunt Jane of Kentucky / Eliza Calvert Hall --
The oven loves the TV set / Heather McHugh --
3:6 / Alta --
A few sirens / Alice Walker --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 / Julia Ward Howe --
The low road ; The seven of pentacles ; To be of use ; A just anger / Marge Piercy --
It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood --
Small comfort / Katha Pollitt --
Holy the firm / Annie Dillard --
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard --
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo --
The day before they bombed Nagasaki / Rebecca Baggett --
Gathered at the river / Denise Levertov --
Conspiracy / Claire Bateman --
Our passion for justice / Carter Heyward --
Beginners ; The fountain / Denise Levertov. Sacredness of the ordinary. Martins ; The acolyte / Denise Levertov --
Moon of the first communion ; The wedding in the courthouse ; The sky is full of blue and full of the mind of God / Kathleen Norris --
"Scientists find universe awash in tiny diamonds" / Pat Mayne Ellis --
Salvation ; The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon --
Nightingales in America / Jane Flanders --
The pedestrian woman / Robin Morgan --
Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields ; Miracle / Susan Griffin --
The woman's Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
How he is coming then / Lucille Clifton --
Revolutionary patience / Dorothee Sölle --
Holy the firm / Annie Dillard --
Garlic / Jeanne Foster --
Welcome morning / Anne Sexton --
Domestic poem / Eileen Moeller --
Beatitude / Claire Bateman --
How to stuff a pepper / Nancy Willard. The spirit and the flesh are one. Meditations with Julian of Norwich / Julian of Norwich --
To praise / Ellen Bass --
In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton --
Use of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde --
Revolutionary patience / Dorothee Sölle --
God send Easter ; Spring song / Lucille Clifton --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
Saturday night worship / Ann Carhart --
White petticoats / Chana Bloch --
O taste and see / Denise Levertov --
Common prayer / Lynn Ungar --
Catechism / Betsy Sholl --
Sunrise / Mary Oliver --
Adam says see / Julia Randall. The unity of all that is. Our houses / Linda Hogan --
Subway / Susan Fawcett --
Mrs. Schneider in church / Kathleen Norris --
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus / Denise Levertov --
29 / Alta --
The way of all ideology / Susan Griffin --
The Sabbath of mutual respect / Marge Piercy --
Chains of fire / Elsa Gidlow --
Dream 2 : Brian the still-hunter / Margaret Atwood --
Cutting greens / Lucille Clifton --
The house that fear built : Warsay, 1943 / Jane Flanders --
A ceremony / Robin Morgan --
Childhood of a stranger / Claire Bateman --
Dancing with poets / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Remember / Joy Harjo --
Untitled poem from "The dinner party" / Judy Chicago. Images of the divine. Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks ; The bat / Jane Kenyon --
Beyond God the Father / Mary Daly --
Thank you, Lord / Maya Angelou --
Sexism and God-talk / Rosemary Ruether --
Apotheosis of the kitchen goddess II / Teresa Noelle Roberts --
They say she is veiled / Judy Grahn --
When the saints come marching in ; October / Audre Lorde --
The spiral dance / Starhawk --
Nothing so wise / Jeanne Lohmann --
Meditations with Julian of Norwich / Julian of Norwich --
Inventing sin / George Ella Lyon --
Teeth / Susan Griffin --
Not so. Not so. / Anne Sexton --
Woman's call to the ministry / Caroline Julia Bartlett --
Nape / Jan Epton Seale --
Kali / Lucille Clifton --
Our passion for justice / Carter Heyward --
In this motherless geography / Elaine Orr --
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
Resurrection / Margaret Atwood --
Holy the firm ; Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard --
Epiphany / Pem Kremer --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Eli, Eli / Miriam Kessler --
The color purple / Alice Walker --
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus ; The thread ; The task / Denise Levertov. Re-Mything. The tree / Cinda Thompson --
The sacrifice / Chana Bloch --
Ruth / Diane Q. Lewis --
Lot's wife / Cherra S. Ransom --
Job's wife / Betsy Sholl --
Poem for Flora / Nikki Giovanni --
Delilah / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Abishag / Shirley Kaufman --
The raising of Lazarus ; Mary ; Holy night / Lucille Clifton --
Jesus dies / Anne Sexton --
The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
To Joan / Lucille Clifton --
Riding Hood / Betsy Sholl --
I and thou / Chana Bloch --
The two Gretels / Robin Morgan --
Myth / Muriel Rukeyser --
Maxim / Josephine Miles --
The mermaid / Lisel Mueller --
Ego-tripping / Nikki Giovanni --
Everywoman her own theology / Alicia Ostriker. The word. Why I never answered your letter / Nancy Willard --
Words and language : a haggle / Paul Gunn Allen --
Tell our daughters / Besmilr Brigham --
Stories and poems ; "Naming" from Woman and nature / Susan Griffin --
Poem for a chorus / Marie Cartier --
A way of staying sane / Maxine Kumin --
The last class / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
The making of poems / Lucille Clifton --
One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty --
Three small songs for the muse / Kathleen Norris --
A visit / George Ella Lyon --
She and the muse ; The secret ; "I learned that her name was Proverb / Denise Levertov. Mothering
Language
English
Pages
311
Format
Paperback
Release
February 01, 1991
ISBN 13
9780807068137

Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality

Denise Levertov
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This rich and diverse sourcebook of poetry and prose celebrates women's spirituality in its many forms and is dedicated, above all, to the sacredness of the ordinary, to embodied life.

More than three hundred poems and a few prose pieces by modern writers such as Maya Angelou, Annie Dillard, Denise Levertov, Marge Piercy, and Alice Walker, and earlier writers such as Hildegard of Bingen and Margaret Fuller, offer new insights into the realm of the spirit. Here women's voices fill the traditional silence about matters central to women's experience, from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to cooking, caretaking, and household rituals to miscarriage, death, and lesser losses. The writings collected in this anthology represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women—a vision that is life-giving and partakes of the world of earth and flesh.

Organized thematically, Cries of the Spirit can be used as a sourcebook for public rituals, group gatherings, or personal reflection.


Owning self. Unlearning to not speak ; The woman in the ordinary / Marge Piercy --
Shameless hussy / Alta --
Woman and nature / Susan Griffin --
Variation on a theme by Rilke ; Stepping westward / Denise Levertov --
The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser --
Outrage / Lucille Iverson --
Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller --
Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett --
Now I become myself / May Sarton --
I am running into a new year / Lucille Clifton --
Listen / Linda Lancione Moyer --
Lilith and the doctor / Kathleen Norris --
The journey / Mary Oliver --
The irises / Jeanne Foster --
Blue morning glory / Anne Pitkin --
Housing shortage / Naomi Replansky --
Aging / Erica Jong --
Advice / Ruth Stone. The imperative of intimacy. Prayer for revolutionary love / Denise Levertov --
Out of my time / Marya Mannes --
Councils / Marge Piercy --
To have without holding / Marge Piercy --
Paris and Helen / Judy Grahn --
Pornography and silence / Susan Griffin --
Growing together / Joyce Carol Oates --
After love / Maxine Kumin --
A thought / Linda Hogan --
New mother / Sharon Olds --
Dancing the shout to the true gospel or The song Movement sisters don't want me to sing / Rita Mae Brown --
Late autumn / May Sarton --
The way towards each other / Jeni Couzyn --
Blossom / Mary Oliver --
To drink / Jane Hirshfield --
Medicine ; Love is not concerned / Alice Walker --
The hug / Tess Gallagher --
Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni --
Feast Day / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Ironing their clothes / Julia Alvarez --
7:3 ; 2:7 / Alta --
The big heart / Anne Sexton --
Centering / Mary Caroline Richards. Mothering. Advent / Kathleen Norris --
Early morning woman / Joy Harjo --
Poems for the new / Kathleen Fraser --
Magnificat / Chana Bloch --
The wife takes a child / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Birth / George Ella Lyon --
Rising to meet it / Chana Bloch --
Now that I am forever with child / Audre Lorde --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Lorelei / Alta --
Unspoken / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Happy Birthday / Alicia Ostriker --
Mothers, daughters / Shirley Kaufman --
The bad mother / Susan Griffin --
Black mother woman / Audre Lorde --
February 13, 1980 / Lucille Clifton --
One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Mother / Sharon Mayer Libera --
Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher --
35/10 / Sharon Olds. Generations. Dandelion greens / Jane Flanders --
Keeping hair / Ramona Wilson --
Matmiya / Mary TallMountain --
For two who slipped away almost entirely / Alice Walker --
Legacies / Nikki Giovanni --
Whitecaps / Betsy Sholl --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
Poem to my grandmother in her death / Michele Murray --
Five poems for grandmothers / Margaret Atwood --
Spring fragments / Betsy Sholl --
Prologue / Audre Lorde --
Poem at thirty-nine / Alice Walker --
The envelope / Maxine Kumin --
Eggs ; The moment / Sharon Olds --
Three sweatshop women / Nanying Stella Wong --
A poem about faith / Kathleen Norris --
The will's love / Besmilr Brigham --
What is repeated, what abides / Barbara Hendryson --
Elegy / Maya Angelou. Death and lesser losses. The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Ten years ago / Eileen Moeller --
Unborn child elegy ; Country woman elegy / Margaret Gibson --
Flowers / Kathleen Fraser --
104 ; 3:1 / Alta --
My grandfather / Joanne Hotchkiss --
Lynn / Jeanne Foster --
Easter, 1968 / May Sarton --
What hell is / Heather McHugh --
Mama Rosanna's last bead-clack / Laurel Speer --
Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
"Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" / Alice Walker --
Finding the lamb / Rebecca Newth --
Aunt Lucy / Jane Gentry --
Apples / Shirley Kaufman --
In the house of the dying / Jane Cooper --
In flight / Jennifer Regan --
Grandmother / Marilyn Krysl --
Betrothed / Louise Bogan --
Some slippery afternoon / Daniela Gioseffi --
Gift from the sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh --
Waiting / Jane Cooper --
The cancer journals / Audre Lorde --
Gestalt at sixty / May Sarton --
Ebba Dawson : Mardel Rest Home, Haskell, New Jersey / Maria Gillan --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Testimony ; Planting onions / Jane Flanders --
Survivors / Chana Bloch --
The poem as a reservoir for grief / Tess Gallagher --
In the midst of winter / Mary Jane Moffat --
In Blackwater Woods / Mary Oliver --
Anxiety about dying / Alicia Ostriker --
Sonnet 2 from "The Autumn Sonnets" ; All souls / May Sarton. Songs of brokenness and alienation. Crazy quilt / Jane Wilson Joyce --
Silence. She is six years old / Lynn Emanuel --
Greg's got custody of Sally / Julia Alvarez --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
The journey / Lillian Smith --
Solstice poem / Margaret Atwood --
Moving / Jeanne Foster --
Misguided / Harriet Brown --
Christmas letter, 1970 / May Sarton --
Town I left / Helen Sorrells --
S M / Alice Walker --
My mother, who came from China, where she never saw snow / Laureen Mar --
Lady on a bus / Jeanne Lohmann --
I check my parent's house / Julia Alvarez --
The history of my feeling / Kathleen Fraser --
Hand games ; The friend / Marge Piercy --
Housewife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer --
Homes of single women / Susan B. Anthony --
The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir --
Conversation with a fireman from Brooklyn / Tess Gallagher --
Clearing the air / Nancy Willard --
Farmwife / Betsy Sholl --
The victim / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Killers of the dream / Lillian Smith --
Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni --
Watts / Shirley Kaufman --
Yom Kippur / Chana Bloch. The will toward the good. To a milkweed / Deborah Digges --
Memoirs, I / Margaret Fuller --
To softness / Laurie Sheck --
This morning / Muriel Rukeyser --
The gardener / Robin Becker --
The woman with the wild-grown hair relaxes after another long day / Nita Penfold --
When he came / Dorothee Sölle --
Prayer for a tenspeed heart / Barbara Hendryson --
Aunt Jane of Kentucky / Eliza Calvert Hall --
The oven loves the TV set / Heather McHugh --
3:6 / Alta --
A few sirens / Alice Walker --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 / Julia Ward Howe --
The low road ; The seven of pentacles ; To be of use ; A just anger / Marge Piercy --
It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood --
Small comfort / Katha Pollitt --
Holy the firm / Annie Dillard --
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard --
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo --
The day before they bombed Nagasaki / Rebecca Baggett --
Gathered at the river / Denise Levertov --
Conspiracy / Claire Bateman --
Our passion for justice / Carter Heyward --
Beginners ; The fountain / Denise Levertov. Sacredness of the ordinary. Martins ; The acolyte / Denise Levertov --
Moon of the first communion ; The wedding in the courthouse ; The sky is full of blue and full of the mind of God / Kathleen Norris --
"Scientists find universe awash in tiny diamonds" / Pat Mayne Ellis --
Salvation ; The foot-washing / George Ella Lyon --
Nightingales in America / Jane Flanders --
The pedestrian woman / Robin Morgan --
Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields ; Miracle / Susan Griffin --
The woman's Bible / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
How he is coming then / Lucille Clifton --
Revolutionary patience / Dorothee Sölle --
Holy the firm / Annie Dillard --
Garlic / Jeanne Foster --
Welcome morning / Anne Sexton --
Domestic poem / Eileen Moeller --
Beatitude / Claire Bateman --
How to stuff a pepper / Nancy Willard. The spirit and the flesh are one. Meditations with Julian of Norwich / Julian of Norwich --
To praise / Ellen Bass --
In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton --
Use of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde --
Revolutionary patience / Dorothee Sölle --
God send Easter ; Spring song / Lucille Clifton --
The network of the imaginary mother / Robin Morgan --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
Saturday night worship / Ann Carhart --
White petticoats / Chana Bloch --
O taste and see / Denise Levertov --
Common prayer / Lynn Ungar --
Catechism / Betsy Sholl --
Sunrise / Mary Oliver --
Adam says see / Julia Randall. The unity of all that is. Our houses / Linda Hogan --
Subway / Susan Fawcett --
Mrs. Schneider in church / Kathleen Norris --
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus / Denise Levertov --
29 / Alta --
The way of all ideology / Susan Griffin --
The Sabbath of mutual respect / Marge Piercy --
Chains of fire / Elsa Gidlow --
Dream 2 : Brian the still-hunter / Margaret Atwood --
Cutting greens / Lucille Clifton --
The house that fear built : Warsay, 1943 / Jane Flanders --
A ceremony / Robin Morgan --
Childhood of a stranger / Claire Bateman --
Dancing with poets / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Remember / Joy Harjo --
Untitled poem from "The dinner party" / Judy Chicago. Images of the divine. Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks ; The bat / Jane Kenyon --
Beyond God the Father / Mary Daly --
Thank you, Lord / Maya Angelou --
Sexism and God-talk / Rosemary Ruether --
Apotheosis of the kitchen goddess II / Teresa Noelle Roberts --
They say she is veiled / Judy Grahn --
When the saints come marching in ; October / Audre Lorde --
The spiral dance / Starhawk --
Nothing so wise / Jeanne Lohmann --
Meditations with Julian of Norwich / Julian of Norwich --
Inventing sin / George Ella Lyon --
Teeth / Susan Griffin --
Not so. Not so. / Anne Sexton --
Woman's call to the ministry / Caroline Julia Bartlett --
Nape / Jan Epton Seale --
Kali / Lucille Clifton --
Our passion for justice / Carter Heyward --
In this motherless geography / Elaine Orr --
For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange --
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen --
Resurrection / Margaret Atwood --
Holy the firm ; Teaching a stone to talk / Annie Dillard --
Epiphany / Pem Kremer --
The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell --
Eli, Eli / Miriam Kessler --
The color purple / Alice Walker --
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus ; The thread ; The task / Denise Levertov. Re-Mything. The tree / Cinda Thompson --
The sacrifice / Chana Bloch --
Ruth / Diane Q. Lewis --
Lot's wife / Cherra S. Ransom --
Job's wife / Betsy Sholl --
Poem for Flora / Nikki Giovanni --
Delilah / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Abishag / Shirley Kaufman --
The raising of Lazarus ; Mary ; Holy night / Lucille Clifton --
Jesus dies / Anne Sexton --
The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
To Joan / Lucille Clifton --
Riding Hood / Betsy Sholl --
I and thou / Chana Bloch --
The two Gretels / Robin Morgan --
Myth / Muriel Rukeyser --
Maxim / Josephine Miles --
The mermaid / Lisel Mueller --
Ego-tripping / Nikki Giovanni --
Everywoman her own theology / Alicia Ostriker. The word. Why I never answered your letter / Nancy Willard --
Words and language : a haggle / Paul Gunn Allen --
Tell our daughters / Besmilr Brigham --
Stories and poems ; "Naming" from Woman and nature / Susan Griffin --
Poem for a chorus / Marie Cartier --
A way of staying sane / Maxine Kumin --
The last class / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
The making of poems / Lucille Clifton --
One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty --
Three small songs for the muse / Kathleen Norris --
A visit / George Ella Lyon --
She and the muse ; The secret ; "I learned that her name was Proverb / Denise Levertov. Mothering
Language
English
Pages
311
Format
Paperback
Release
February 01, 1991
ISBN 13
9780807068137

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