Cover of No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets

No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets

A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove."This is a fabulous, heavy event: an updated edition of the pioneering and beautiful anthology "No More Masks!, " which we really needed in our lives back then, and we really, really need in our lives right now."—June JordanA

Themes
feminismwomen
Setting
20th centurycollege
Audience
adult
Length
long · 488 pages
Form
poetry

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Moon Is Always Female: Poems Shares poetry, feminism, feminist
  2. Your Native Land, Your Life Shares poetry, feminism, women
  3. Preparing My Daughter For Rain:: notes on how to heal and survive. Shares poetry, feminism, feminist
  4. Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World Shares poetry, feminism, anthology

“People who read No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
  2. Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
  3. I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems His Poems Collected in Pairs
  4. Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Why God Is a Woman
  2. When Angels Speak of Love
  3. Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
  4. I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Princess Saves Herself in this One
  2. The Sun and Her Flowers
  3. Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls
  4. Diving Into the Wreck

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Norton Anthology of Poetry
  2. The Oxford Book of American Poetry
  3. 20th Century Poetry and Poetics
  4. The Mentor Book of Major American Poets