Rising tides : 20th century American women poets / edited by Laura Chester and Sharon Barba ; [introduction by Anaïs Nin].

Includes index.

PARTIAL CONTENTS (LGBT contributors): Storyette H.M / Gertrude Stein -- Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein -- Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein -- Music / Amy Lowell -- Wind and silver / Amy Lowell -- Streets / Amy Lowell -- A poet's wife / Amy Lowell -- Madonna of the evening flowers / Amy Lowell -- Callypso speaks / H.D. -- Oread / H.D. -- Evadne / H.D. -- Rendezvous / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Passer mortuus est / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Justice denied in Massachusetts / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Huntsman, what quarry? / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The invocation to Kali / May Sarton -- The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser -- A little stone in the middle of the road in Florida / Muriel Rukeyser -- Kathe Kollwitz / Muriel Rukeyser -- Women / May Swenson -- All that time / May Swenson -- A couple / May Swenson -- A fixture / May Swenson -- Living in sin / Adrienne Rich -- The book / Adrienne Rich -- Planetarium / Adrienne Rich -- Trying to talk with a man / Adrienne Rich -- The mirror in which two are seen as one / Adrienne Rich -- A poem for my father / Sonia Sanchez -- Answer to yo question of am i not yo woman / Sonia Sanchez -- Personal letter no. 3 / Sonia Sanchez -- Okay "negroes" / June Jordan -- Poem for my family: Hazel Griffin and Victor Hernandez Cruz / June Jordan -- And who are you? / June Jordan -- The comman woman / Judy Grahn -- I have come to claim / Judy Grahn -- Ready / Lynn Strongin -- Van Gogh / Lynn Strongin -- Sayre / Lynn Strongin -- First Aspen / Lynn Strongin -- Letter reaching out to my sister, 1600 miles / Sharon Barba -- Thanksgiving / Sharon Barba -- Dropping toward stillness / Sharon Barba -- A cycle of women / Sharon Barba -- Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields / Susan Griffin -- Revolution / Susan Griffin -- The sky / Susan Griffin -- I like to think of Harriet Tubman / Susan Griffin.