cover image Claiming the Spirit Within Pa

Claiming the Spirit Within Pa

. Beacon Press (MA), $18 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-6835-9

Not so terse are the 300 poems by contemporary women poets (Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Anne Sexton, Tess Gallagher among them) collected by Marilyn Sewell in Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry. With only a brief introduction, the poems, arranged in sections titled Generations, Work, Mothering, etc., are allowed to speak for themselves.