I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists

Brief Description: Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are just two of the 80 women poets in this collection of feminist poetry for young readers. Marc Notes: Includes index.; A collection of poems by women from different cultures and backgrounds, portraying the varied facets of the female experience from childhood to old age. Review Quotes: "This excellent volume features the work of women, known and unknown, from around the world . . . Buy this book for someone who thinks she doesn't like poetry."--"The Bloomsbury Review""These are witty, sophisticated, non-messagey poems. They are angry, funny, tender, dramatic, full of surprise and conflict and self-mockery. Candid about failure and betrayal, they play with language, role, and stereotype . . . [They] open up the range of love and family."--"Booklist "(starred review) Biographical Note: Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955. She grew up in Stafford, England, and attended the University of Liverpool, where she obtained an honors degree in philosophy in 1977. Duffy's poetry has received numerous awards, and she is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her recent books is "The World's Wife: Poems," published in America by Faber and Faber (2000). Duffy currently lives in Manchester, England, where she lectures on poetry for the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Table of Contents: "Valentine" Carol Ann Duffy"For an Unborn Baby" Janet Shepperson "Lullaby" Rosemary Norman "Before the Fall "Rachel McAlpine from" Welsh Espionage" Gwyneth Lewis "School Report" Carole Paine "Loch, Black Rock, Beautiful Boat" Meg Campbell "Indian Children Speak" Juanita Bell "natural high "Jean Binta Breeze"Happy Birthday from Bennigans" Julie O'Callaghan "Her First Toy" Sylvia Parker "Latch-key Child" Valerie Sinason "school days" Jean Binta Breeze "Vestment" Ana Blandiana "A Happy Childhood" Eulalia Bernard "Grown Up" Julie O'Callaghan "Accomplishments" Cynthia MacDonald "The Name of the Game" Jenny Craig "shopping" Jenny Boult "Sally" Phoebe Hesketh"Peck's Bad Boys" Judi Benson "Good Girls" Irene Rawnsley"Don't Smack Me Again" Deborah Randall"This Cat" Gabriela Pearse "Advice to a Teenage Daughter" Isobel Thrilling "Thirteen" Julie Kane "Hanging Fire" Audre Lorde "Turning Sixteen" Maighread Medbh "Bette Davis" Jackie Kay "Aunt Leaf" Mary Oliver "The Nature Lesson" Marjorie Baldwin"The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle" Elaine Cusack "Short Thought" Elaine Cusack "Piccadilly Line" Carole Satyamurti "Skanking Englishman Between Trains" Grace Nichols "Self-portraits"0 Elma Mitchell "For Heidi with Blue Hair" Fleur Adcock "Sex, Politics and Religion" Lavinia Greenlaw "Phenomenal Woman" Maya Angelou "Blind Girl "Jane Cooper "Disabled Swimmers' Night" Carole Satyamurti "Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person" Nina Cassian "Didactica Nova" Grete Tartler "I am Happy" Delfy Gochez Fernandez "Remember" Alice Walker"The Class Game" Mary Casey "Yuh Hear Bout?" Valerie Bloom "We Can Always" Nellie Wong "A Short Note on Schoolgirls" Alison Campbell "Women Laughing "U. A. Fanthorpe "Whatweakersex?" Fran Landsman "Sly Autumn" Rita Ann Higgins "You Held Out the Light" Gwendolyn MacEwen "I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine" Liz Lochhead "Small Words" Fiona Hall "Echo and Narcissus" Gerda Mayer"Sweet Sixteen" Eunice de Souza "Magnetic" Wendy Cope "Song (October 1969)" Kath Fraser "Space-age Lover" Jennifer Brice"A Simple Story" Gwen Harwood "The Juggler's Wife" Cicely Herbert"Lovesick" Carol Ann Duffy "Chat Show" Vicki Raymond "To the Spider in the Crevice Behind the Toilet Door "Janet Sutherland "A Woman's Work" Dorothy Nimmo "Frying Tonight" Julie O'Callaghan "Monument" Felice Holman "At a Cannery" Nishio Katsuko "The Women of Mumbles Head" Maura Dooley "Unravelling" Vicki Feaver "Being a Student" U. A. Fanthorpe"The Genie in the Jar" Nikki Giovanni "Scarecrow" Stef Pixner"A Post Card from Greece" Jane Whittle "Holiday Girls" Vicki Raymond "Things" Fleur Adcock "Anno Wreck Sick"0 Magi Gibson "The Fat Black Woman's Motto on Her Bedroom Door" Grace Nichols "The Fat Lady's Request" Joyce la Verne "The Concerned Adolescent" Wendy Cope "Mollie Haggarty" Dorothy Barnham "Rules for Beginners" Carol Rumens "The Way We Live" Kathleen Jamie "Son "Sharon Olds "Index of Authors""Acknowledgements" Review Citations:

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2000 pg. 257 (EAN 9780805055450, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 12/01/1997 (EAN 9780805055450, Paperback)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2005 pg. 320 (EAN 9780805055450, Paperback)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 461 (EAN 9780805055450, Paperback)

School Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 136 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover)

Booklist 03/01/1994 pg. 1260 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Kirkus Review - Children 01/01/1994 pg. 66 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/1995 pg. 262 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1994 pg. 378 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2000 pg. 257 (EAN 9780805027563, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Duffy, Carol Ann Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955. She has won all major UK poetry prizes as well as a Lannan Literary Award in the USA.