The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1Janet Sternburg Published to high praise--"groundbreaking . . . a landmark" (Poets and Writers)--this was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write. |
Contents
Still Just Writing | 3 |
Why I Write | 17 |
In Praise of Watercolors | 27 |
De Memoria | 33 |
My Grandmother Who Painted | 45 |
Creating Oneself from Scratch | 71 |
On Being Female Black and Free | 95 |
A Diary | 107 |
What It Is I Think Im Doing Anyhow | 153 |
The Tricky Problem of Being a Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century | 169 |
The Coming Book | 181 |
The Opening Days | 187 |
The Education of a Poet | 217 |
Becoming a Writer | 231 |
Notes on Contributors | 257 |
Acknowledgments | |
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