A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present.

"[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

When it was originally published in 1980, A Book of Women Poets was hailed by Time as a "splendid, pioneering collection." This generous selection of poetry by women--spanning 4,000 years--is now revised and updated, with an expanded selection of American women poets.