A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers,
The Extraordinary Tide synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of
poetry by women in America. Long overdue, the anthology includes
America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting
new artists of contemporary verse. With a provocative foreword by
Eleanor Wilner and short biographies of all the poets, this anthology
stakes out an authoritative space for poetry written by American women
and will help to define new poetic terrain for readers and writers of
contemporary verse.