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RISING TIDES, 20th Century American Women Poets
Simon & Schuster, 1973
RISING TIDES, edited by Laura Chester and Sharon Barba with an
introduction by Anais Nin

Ahead of her time, Chester edited this first collection of 20th century, American women’s poetry, including the work of seventy poets from Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Adrienne Rich, Erica Jong and Anne Waldman.

Rising out of the consciousness that gave birth to the Women’s Liberation Movement, this book is a feminist statement in the largest sense: it expresses a belief in the full humanity of woman and her right to define herself.


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From: Anais Nin’s Introduction:

"It is the poetry of today, and the poetry of woman at a crucial period of evolution. The selection is wide. It will place poetry as a daily necessity, as nourishment, indispensable…The fusion here is in the voice of woman. Woman determined to end woman’s mysteries and woman’s secrets. We need to know her better. Let us approach her and listen to her in these condensed, in these concentrated and distilled messages, to become intimate with her."