Download or read book Translations of Selected Poems by Ten Contemporary French and Spanish Women Poets written by Elaine Penkethman Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following bilingual anthology of work by contemporary women poets from French and Spanish speaking countries is the beginning of a larger anthology which will eventually include women poets writing in other languages as well. I have focused on poets writing in French and Spanish because of my own particular language orientation and literary interests, and because there is a wealth of exciting material presently available in these two languages, but as yet unavailable in English. My interest in compiling an anthology of women poets stems from my belief that good women writers have suffered much neglect in the tradition of modern international poetry as evidenced by their frequent exclusion from literary anthologies and histories. With this anthology of women poets I hope to contribute to the literary recognition of women writers and to their acknowledgment in criticism, literary history, and anthologies.