The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Clinton, Catherine, Editor

A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today

80 pp. | Abrams | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8109-4240-2 $$17.95

(3) YA Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. This welcome anthology contains twenty-five emblematic poems by well-known women writers, from the canonized (i.e., Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley) through the modern masters (i.e., Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich). The poems are paired with handsome paintings of women often transcending their material worlds. As Clinton puts it, the biographies at book's end "comprise a particularly intriguing story of America."

Reviewer: Nell Beram