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.
Descriptionxi, 51 pages ; 26 cm
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Other author/creatorBradford, Gigi.
Other author/creatorNewlin, Louisa, 1936-
Other author/creatorSauers, Sara T., book designer, typographer.
Other author/creatorSauers, Sara T., autographer.
Other author/creatorThomson-Shore, Inc., printer.
Other author/creatorFolger 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 noteJoyner- Autographed "Sara T. Sauers"--Colophon.
General noteCollection 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Acquisitions source Joyner- Gift of Larry Houston, 2017
Genre/formPoetry.
Genre/formProse poems.
Genre/formArtists' books.
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