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A review by leigh_reidelberger
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
5.0
5 stars b/c I certainly be reading it a few more times. There is a lot of power and emotion in this collection. Very much loved.
Some favorites from my first read through:
-"A woman's place"
The Children's Chorus
-An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
-Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion
-What She Thinks as She Waits by the Door
-Shiv
-If 2017 was a poem title
-Ode to the Pantsuit
-Matriot Acts
-The March
Some favorites from my first read through:
-"A woman's place"
The Children's Chorus
-An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
-Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion
-What She Thinks as She Waits by the Door
-Shiv
-If 2017 was a poem title
-Ode to the Pantsuit
-Matriot Acts
-The March