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A review by niyatee_narkar
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism by Cynthia Dewi Oka, Joyce Peseroff, Laura Fairgrieve, Wendy Xu, Maureen McLane, Jill McDonough, Lauren Clark, Lauren K. Alleyne, Ada Limón, Stacey Waite, Laura Theobald, Denice Frohman, Achy Obejas, Jericho Brown, Sandra Beasley, Rachel Zucker, Tyehimba Jess, Anastacia-Renee, Jade Lascelles, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ellen Hagan, Dorothea Lasky, Judith Baumel, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones Lamon, Mahogany L. Browne, Amanda Johnston, Hope Wabuke, Kim Addonizio, Safia Elhillo, Naomi Shihab Nye, francine j. harris, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, Kwame Dawes, Monika Zobel, Jenny Johnson, Rachel McKibbens, Ryka Aoki, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Danielle Chapman, James Allen Hall, Elizabeth Acevedo, Christopher Soto, Karyna McGlynn, Mary Ruefle, Kaveh Akbar, Trish Salah
3.0
I lacked the cultural and historical context to understand some of them. Some others were on concepts /idea/ movements I haven't yet read enough about. But the sentiment came through and I would like to reread it in a few years when I have learnt more of this world and a woman's place in it.