A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women

Publisher Marketing: A started Library Journal review: "This wonderful collection celebrates the New Formalism being practiced by many highly regarded contemporary women poets ... Highly recommended". This unique and ground-breaking anthology also includes statements by the poets explaining why they write formal verse. Adopted by universities nationwide and well into a second printing. Publisher Marketing: Celebrating the diverse traditions of poetic form, editor and poet Annie Finch presents illuminating examples from sixty contemporary women poets who have transformed and strengthened their literary inheritance. A Formal Feeling Comes welcomes the new millennium with intellectual clarity, emotional freedom, and a chorus of powerful voices. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/30/1994 pg. 47 (EAN 9780934257985, Paperback) Library Journal 06/01/1994 pg. 110 (EAN 9780934257985, Paperback) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Finch, Annie Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism. Her books of poetry include Eve, CALENDARS, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCOTLAND, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams. Her poems appear in anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review. Annie's book of poetry CALENDARS was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in 2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her poetry across the U. S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. Her music, art, and theater collaborations include two operas. Annie lives on the Maine coast near Portland where she directs Stonecoast, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at the University of Southern Maine.