This anthology contains work by over 80 female poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Fiona Pitt-Kethley and Liz Lochead.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...