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Book SynopsisA collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.
Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put together an extraordinary list of poets taking a feminist stance against the new authority. What began as an informal collaboration of like-minded poets—to be released as a handbound chapbook—has grown into something far more substantial and ambitious: a fully fledged anthology of women’s resistance, with a portion of proceeds supporting Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Representing the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, this collection unites powerful new writers, performers, and activists with established poets. Contributors include Denice Frohman, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maureen N. McLane, Joyce Peseroff, Mary Ruefle, Trish Salah, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zucker.
Trade ReviewPraise for Women of Resistance Cited by Autostraddle as one of the "Queer and Feminist Books to Read in 2018" "Here we have 49 women and men and queers and inter-sexuals throwing their everything at this moment in time when the patriarch is really shaking, and it looks like he’s about to tumble down. We’ve got this shiny new book. People are scared that nothing will be left after he falls except a bunch of poems. Pick up this glowing book as you’re crawling through the rubble, and poem by poem and page by page you’ll begin to know that you’ll be okay. You’re in there, and so are your friends. You won’t starve, you’re safe and strong thanks to all these proud, funny, violent, trembling words. Start memorizing. Cause the future is here and this stuff is true." — Eileen Myles
Table of ContentsPart I:
Kiss Me, Kate - Sandra Beasley
Female - Kimberly Johnson
The Children's Chorus - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Civil Rights - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
The Ride Home - Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Over Mate - Ruth Irupe Sanabria
Image - James Allen Hall
Wedding Dress - James Allen Hall
Good & Evil Shoes - Jan Beatty
Getting a UTI - Laura Theobald
Untitled - Laura Theobald
Rib - Hope Wabuke
Skin II: Firebird - Hope Wabuke
Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits - Rachel Zucker
And Still I Speak of It - Rachel Zucker
Part II:
January, after El Niño - Ryka Aoki
13 - Aracelis Girmay
To the Husband - Aracelis Girmay
Elegy with a White Shirt - Cynthia Dewi Oka
Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion - Joyce Peseroff
A Woman and Her Job - Elizabeth Clark Wessel
That's Where You Disappear - Monika Zobel
Of the Swan - Jericho Brown
The Legend of Big and Fine - Jericho Brown
Ladies Weekend in Brooklyn - Danielle Chapman
To the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job - Elizabeth Acevedo dowry - Safia Elhillo
zihour - Safia Elhillo
after - Safia Elhillo
Part III:
If 2017 was a Poem Title - Mahogany L. Browne
Heritage - Kaveh Akbar
Poem for Suheir Hammad - Trish Salah
Ode to the Pantsuit - Lauren Alleyne
Madame X-- - Lauren Alleyne
Matriot Acts - Anne Waldman
Am Ha'aretz - Rosebud Ben Oni
Stanzas for the Resistance - Todd Hearon
The March - Achy Obejas
Meanwhile - Maureen McLane
Heidenröslein - Maureen McLane
Hagar in the Wilderness - Tyehimba Jess
To the breasts when it's over-- - Ellen Hagen
To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh
was a wilderness blooming-- - Ellen Hagen
Kiss of the Sun - Mary Ruefle
Lucky Ladies Sestina - Jill McDonough
Accident, Mass. Ave - Jill McDonough
