Article: Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women.(Brief Article)

Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, ed. Jane Hirshfield. HarperCollins, 259 pp., $22.50. Lately, anthologies of poetry seem to outnumber the single-author volumes. Besides the ethnic and/or gender groupings, the ever-popular "topic" anthologies fill the shelves -- nature, love (and/or marriage), urban, erotic, etc. The jaded writer may scoff at these frames and packages for poetry, yet an obvious justification for them is their appeal to a broader market, one not often reached by poetry. Even for the well-read poet, anthologies can allow for browsing and discovering poets or traditions unknown or forgotten. And it's always interesting ...

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