Julia Mishkin (3 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear to covers/pages. Clean, tight binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstasy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhmatova, Bessie Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of woman as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

First serial publication. Contained in the hard-to-find Fall 1984 issue of The Threepenny Review, a now-established quarterly magazine. This early issue includes work by, among others, Louise Gluck, Wendy Lesser, Eugenio Montale (translated by Jonathan Galassi), Rodrigo Rey Rosa (translated by Paul Bowles), Peter Stansky, and Chase Twichell.…