Many of India s best known women poets, as well as some of its less familiar
ones are to be found in this landmark volume of 54 women poets from ten
languages. Its rich and varied selection presents a feast of poetry in
translations that are remarkable for their fidelity and poetic rendering. An
experience of womanhood may be the locus of this anthology, but modes of
expression vary by circumstance. Some women locate freedom in the sky, while
others talk of being a witch, or dance, or food. Some speak of the pain of
husbands and the love of children, others of a lover s