Shakespeare's sisters : women writers bridge five centuries / edited by Gigi Bradford and Louisa Newlin.
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | [Washington, D.C.] : Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012. |
| Description | xi, 51 pages ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bradford, Gigi. |
| Other author/creator | Newlin, Louisa, 1936- |
| Other author/creator | Sauers, Sara T., book designer, typographer. |
| Other author/creator | Sauers, Sara T., autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Thomson-Shore, Inc., printer. |
| Other author/creator | Folger Shakespeare Library. |
| Contents | Becoming Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland -- Murder and meat / Marie Howe -- Lines composed on the body politic, an accounting / Rita Dove -- Getting and spending / Linda Gregerson -- Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, gives Desdemona advice / Jane Smiley -- The triumph of death / Rosanna Warren -- Sonnets uncorseted / Maxine Kumin -- Bloomsbury in Trinidad / Elizabeth Nunez -- Elizabethan / Linda Pastan -- Not over it / Heather McHugh -- To Mary Sidney, on reading her psalms / Jacqueline Osherow -- Ghazal written with a diamond on a window / Elizabeth Alexander -- Joy's loan / Jane Hirshfield. |
| Summary | "For this volume, we asked a baker's dozen of distinguished contemporary women poets and novelists to write original work reflecting upon women writers within the exhibition's time frame."--Introduction. |
| Local note | Joyner- Autographed "Sara T. Sauers"--Colophon. |
| General note | Collection of poetry and prose by contemporary women authors reflecting on the the works of women writers from the 16th to the 18th century. |
| General note | "This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Shakespeare's sisters : voices of English and European women writers, 1500-1700, presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., from February 2 through May 19,2012"--Page [iv]. |
| General note | "Shakespeare's sisters was designed and typeset by Sara T. Sauers. ... 800 copies have been printed by Thomson-Shore on Natures Natural paper and bound in Sakamoto wrappers with Hahnemühle Bugra endsheets. The hand-sewn binding was designed by Julie Leonard and Sara Langworthy. ... The cover was letterpress printed by the designer, with calligraphy by Laura Capp."--Colophon |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner- Gift of Larry Houston, 2017 |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Prose poems. |
| Genre/form | Artists' books. |
| ISBN | 9780962925443 |
| ISBN | 0962925446 |