By Herself

the long version

Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In *By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry* - edited by Molly McQuade - contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are both telling and fascinating. This lively and richly varied collection offers more than two dozen essays that are uniformly original, challenging, playful, and ruthlessly individualistic.