Thursday, April 16, 2009


"This is a collection that seeks to mark how women poets made a poetry that, in two decades, altered the face of American poetry forever.... A new language began—not a language that was linguistically new (although there are scholars who make that argument), but a language new to them. New to us, I should say, because in the process of speaking what was hidden, we began to identify with one another as women, to become a 'we.'"—Honor Moore



This is the latest volume that I received from the Library of America's American Poets Project. Poetry Daily is highlighting this volume by reprinting the entire introduction by Honor Moore on its website as a weekly prose feature as part of its National Poetry Month celebration.

4 comments:

Churlita said...

Do you write poetry at all, Dex? If you're interested, there's a blog on my roll called Mutating the Signature that's dedicated to reading and writing poetry. you might want to check it out.

Unknown said...

thanks i will...

Unknown said...

and i have but am not currently...but i need to put pen to paper again

Anonymous said...

the ages demand it!