Word : on being a [woman] writer, edited by Jocelyn Burrell ; foreword by Suheir Hammad

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Contents: Foreword: From margin to center / Suheir Hammad -- I: Difficult passages/dangerous acts. The structured silences of women : culture, censorship, and voice in a globalised market / Ritu Menon -- Women who write too much / bell hooks -- Lyric in a time of violence / Meena Alexander -- Baghdad : these cities dying in our arms / Alia Mamdouh -- On the line and The black pen / Eva Johnson -- II: Blood and ink. Writing near the bone / Yvonne Vera -- Word warrior / Jennifer DiMarco -- The world of poetry / Taslima Nasrin -- Finding the groove / Joy Harjo -- Only daughter / Sandra Cisneros -- Why write? / Amy Ling -- The girl behind the smile / Judith Clark -- III: On writing herself. The semiotics of sex / Jeanette Winterson -- Writing in the language of the other / Assia Djebar -- Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness / Liza Fiol-Matta -- Writing with the body / Luisa Valenzuela -- On writing poetry / Margaret Atwood -- Stealing apples / Barbara Kingsolver -- The woman who slept with one eye open / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- IV: In tribute. The difficult miracle of Black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan -- The interval / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem -- Women like us / Edwidge Danticat -- Letter to a young woman poet / Eavan Boland

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