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sammiotter's review
5.0
Awesome poetry about so many awesome women and it’s really amazing, go Anne!!
piburnjones's review against another edition
5.0
I read these aloud while nursing my ten-week-old baby - she's drinking in intersectional feminism with her milk - and they are very satisfying to read aloud.
They are not child-friendly poems, most of them. (Again, she's ten weeks old, she likes voices and faces and doesn't understand the trials and tragedies of the women in this book.)
Each poem is written to or about or from the perspective of a different woman. Frieda Kahlo, Bessie Coleman, Indira Ghandi, Annie Oakley, and so on. Most I knew of, some I didn't, but Champion thoughtfully included a section of short biographies at the end. These are women who struggled, women who refused to accept the limitations of their time and station. For that reason, these are not comfortable poems, but they are stirring and wonderful. Even as you admire the ring of a line or the clever construction of an image, these poems will make you angry: fired up and ready to march and fight and vote.
They are not child-friendly poems, most of them. (Again, she's ten weeks old, she likes voices and faces and doesn't understand the trials and tragedies of the women in this book.)
Each poem is written to or about or from the perspective of a different woman. Frieda Kahlo, Bessie Coleman, Indira Ghandi, Annie Oakley, and so on. Most I knew of, some I didn't, but Champion thoughtfully included a section of short biographies at the end. These are women who struggled, women who refused to accept the limitations of their time and station. For that reason, these are not comfortable poems, but they are stirring and wonderful. Even as you admire the ring of a line or the clever construction of an image, these poems will make you angry: fired up and ready to march and fight and vote.
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