title: Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing (NEW EDITION SEPT 01)
author:  Jan Montefiore 
description: This intelligent analysis of feminist poetics--including European, Caribbean, African, and post-colonial perspectives--examines the elements that are specific to women's poetry and how they resist a predominantly male critical tradition.
zlib_text:  is a journey from girlhood to
  womanhood through poetry
  It is the search for truth in silence
  The freeing of the tongue
  It is deep wounds and deep healing
  And the resilience that lies within us
  It is a love letter to the sisterhood
  
   
  A note from the poet: 
   is comprised of
  poetry that is sometimes personal and sometimes cries
  from the collective. 
   is not a memoir, but
  rather an exploration of the inherent resilience we all
  share.
  
   
  THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH IN SILENCE
  THE FREEING OF THE TONGUE
  DEEP WOUNDS, DEEP HEALING
  WITH LOVE
  TO THE SISTERHOOD
  
  The words that pour from my lips now
  come from lips that were sealed
  far too many years.
  Drown the world in what they do not wish to hear.
  That which they do not wish to hear
  is truth.
  
  In the quiet of the night
  I hear my story.
  Not my thoughts,
  my truth.
  The tethers to my ancestors,
  the silk web to my future children.
  I hear my birth and my death;
  I hear my story
  and I realize
  it’s not just my story—
  it’s the story of the ages.
  How we walk gen