The Extraordinary Tide

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Edited by Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu

Columbia University Press

Due/Published March 2001, 496 pages, paper

ISBN 0231119631

This collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. The anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting new artists of contemporary verse. Featuring recent work by poets as aesthetically diverse as Ai, Jane Kenyon, Ann Lauterbach, Carolyn Forché, and Leslie Scalapino, the collection offers a map of a mostly underexplored landscape in American writing. Also included are poems by Julia Alvarez, Lucille Clifton, Alice Fulton, Tess Gallagher, Amy Gerstler, Jane Hirschfield, Heather McHugh, Alice Notley, Lucia Perillo, Marie Ponsot, Mary Jo Salter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. D. Wright, and many others. The book includes a foreword by Eleanor Wilner and short biographies of all the poets.