women poets, american

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women poets, american

The first wave

women poets in America, 1915-1945
1987

The Emily Dickinson handbook

1998
Chronicles the life of poet Emily Dickinson and discusses her writings, her personal life, her influence on the literary world, the scholarly views of her work, and other related topics.

May Swenson

a poet's life in photos
1996
Draws from letters, journals, and photographs to chronicle the life of American poet May Swenson, providing information about her childhood and adolescence in Utah, and her writing career in New York, and including samples of her work.

Mad girl's love song

Sylvia Plath and life before Ted
2013
On February 25, 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately saw Ted Hughes, who would go on to marry her and obscure her life and work. But long before she met Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath already had lived a troubled, complex, creative, and disturbing life. This is the first book to focus on the early life of Sylvia Plath.

The liar's club

a memoir
1996
An account of the author's childhood in a Texas oil town and of her family's struggles with cancer, madness, and alcoholism.

House of houses

1997
A memoir of the author's Mexican-American family in El Paso, Texas, told through the voices of several generations of relatives, both living and dead, with photographs and genealogical charts.

Emily Dickinson

1998
Describes the life, work, and significance of the poet of Amherst.

Emma Lazarus

1988
A biography of the nineteenth-century American poet best known for the verses inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Emily Dickinson

singular poet
1998
Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.

Emily Dickinson

American poet
1994
Tells the life of Emily Dickinson, a poet from Massachusetts who wrote over 1,700 poems in her lifetime.

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