The worldly poetry in Strange Nursery confirms the holiness of all living things. This is poetry about savage nativity scenes, the martyrization of rats, hope, passions. Included is a poem that stands, according to Harold Bloom, "as one of a handful of major American longer poems, of middle length, of the last half-century."
Esther H. Schor Knihy
This fascinating anthology of nonfiction writing by women is suitable not only for freshman composition courses but in women's studies programs and in advanced writing courses as well. The text is divided into two the first contains from three to four pieces by fifteen major women writers; the second, thirty-four classic essays from the feminist tradition.