Poetry by Women
small flames is, like its title poem, an arrangement of lambent coals which brighten their hot cores under the breath of the reader’s gaze. Quiet, contained poems flare up with the intensity of peak experience – in moments of childhood, womanhood, birth, death and the infinite in a cormorant’s flight or Chaucer’s tomb. >>
Loosely based on the author's own three-year experience in settlements along the Hudson-Ungava coast, Snow Formations takes a realistic look at the modern Inuit world. >>
Some Days I Think I Know Things
In this contemporary retelling of the story of Cassandra, Rhonda Douglas explores what "truth" really means and asks what Homer's iconic young prophetress might have to say to anyone wise enough to pay heed to her in the 21st century. >>
St. Boniface Elegies includes lyric poems about domestic life and loss, the role of the poet within a changing cityscape, and a series of poems that engage with poetic tradition. >>
The poems in Still Hungry are elegant meditations on how food so often shapes the crucial moments in our lives — moments of sexual intimacy, love, friendship, betrayal and rebirth. >>
The submerged foundations of a ruined city, ancient statuary, a drop of water echoing in an empty tomb, heat left on a path walked by generations—these remnants of passage are examined intensely, looking back toward their origins and forward into the possibilities of transformation. >>
Swimming into the Light charts a woman's struggle, from the frustration and despair over infertility to the uncertainty of international adoption and rescuing a new life from a war-torn country, and finally to the quiet reflections on motherhood. >>
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