Before her death in October 1974, Anne Sexton completed corrections to the galleys of The Awful Rowing Toward God, which would be published posthumously. The poems in this collection are fiercely personal and intensely emotional, surrealistic in <continued>

The Appalachian women in Kathryn Stripling Byer's work are constrained in numerous ways: by geography, by lack of education, by abuse, by poverty. Each seeks to find her own way through the world, and while at times this means a woman is able leave <continued>