She walks in beauty : A woman's journey through poems / Caroline Kennedy

By: Kennedy, Caroline [author]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016Description: xxiii, 332 pages : illustrations : 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781455564071Subject(s): Poetry -- Collections | Women -- Poetry | Poetry collectionsDDC classification: 808.81 Summary: POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. In "She Walks in Beauty," Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, "She Walks in Beauty" draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S
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POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. In "She Walks in Beauty," Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, "She Walks in Beauty" draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S

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