Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.

Applicant / Sylvia Plath -- Father of my country / Diane Wakoski -- Kã̈the Kollwitz ; Not to be printed, not to said, not to be thought / Muriel Rukeyser -- Planetarium ; Diving into the wreck ; Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev / Adrienne Rich -- Ballad of the lonely masturbator / Anne Sexton -- Anniversary / Alicia Ostriker -- personal letter #2 ; a poem for my father / Sonia Sanchez -- Miscarriage ; 10 commandments for liberation ; Euridice / Alta -- miss rosie ; Lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton -- At the end of the affair / Maxine Kumin -- O'Keeffe retrospective / May Swenson -- Why I died / Erica Jong -- Sappho's reply / Rita Mae Brown -- I like to think of Harriet Tubman ; Three poems for women ; An answer to a man's question, "What can I do about women's liberation?" / Susan Griffin -- Quotations from charwoman me ; Matrilineal descent / Robin Morgan -- Objets d'Art / Cynthia MacDonald -- For my sister Molly who in the fifties / Alice Walker -- "You say I am mysterious" / Elsa Gidlow -- Nuisance ; Rape poem / Marge Piercy -- For Willyce / Pat Parker -- Death camp ; They did not build wings for them / Irena Klepfisz -- Susan's photograph / Jean Valentine -- Eat rice have faith in women ; Yesterday / Fran Winant -- A woman is talking to death / Judy Grahn -- Annunciation / Diane Di Prima -- History of my feeling / Kathleen Fraser -- Semele recycled / Carolyn Kizer -- Gesture / Beverly Dahlen -- To my daughter the junkie on a train ; A litany for survival ; A poem for women in rage / Audre Lorde -- Elegy / Marilyn Hacker -- Poem: on declining values ; Roman poem number six ; Case in point / June Jordan -- Living alone (I) ; LIving alone (II) ; Epilogue / Denise Levertov -- Rhyme of my inheritance ; Song ; Some unsaid things / Joan Larkin -- Pomegranate ; Dedication to hunger / Louise Glũ̈ck -- Eve of Easter / Bernadette Mayer -- Polemic #1 ; First time: 1950 / Honor Moore -- "i am a woman in ice" / Martha Courtot -- After touch / Jan Clausen -- Lady tactics / Anne Waldman -- Caritas / Olga Broumas -- Burning the tomato worms / Carolyn Forché -- A California girlhood ; Goddess who created this passing world / Alice Notley -- "She had ruby red lacquer on her fingernails" ; "Wanting you " ; Honesty / Maureen Owen -- Don't cheapen yourself / Jana Harris -- Anti-short story ; Tone / Rae Armantrout -- Nursery / Fanny Howe -- In knowledge of young boys / Toi Derricotte -- Women's work / Michelle Cliff -- Nessie / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Many junipers, heartbeats ; Under the Zanzariere / Jane Miller -- Satan says / Sharon Olds -- Coral Sea, 1945 / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Among women / Marie Ponsot -- She lays / Molly Peacock -- Metaphors of women / Katha Pollitt -- Green notebook / Jane Cooper -- San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham -- Unleashed ; Joan / Eileen Myles.