Twenty-five years of prize-winning poetry selected from CALYX Journal. This outstanding collection presents a diversity of poets who illuminate a poetic tradition in women's literature that was submerged during much of the 20th-century. Here women's voices pierce that obscurity with a fierce and dazzling brightness that is expansive, fertile, joyous, and powerful. Included among the more than 50 poets are: Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhmatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sharon Olds, Molly Peacock, Eleanor Wilner, Wislawa Szymborska, and Elizabeth Woody.The Stream of ItThey might say, a white bird in the snow, And study it for years.When the lacquer bucket breaks, water is everywhere.But water already is everywhere, and salt; this much I understandor hope.The binding shadow, orange, of an orange peel;sky painted through the hip of a cow.What the painters learn is a river, eye to hand, the color of earth and mind the same, and its shadow.Still it's an unending struggleto put it down, even the best of them leavingpalettes like battlefields-an unending struggle just to see what is, when vision keeps breaking like wateracross a stone, a constant rushing, and light is a salmon, always returning, blindly, to its source.-Jane Hirshfield"From here will come our literary heritage."-John Berry, Editor-in-chief, "Library Journal"Margarita Donnelly is a founding editor of CALYX. She received the American Book Award for editing "The Forbidden Stitch." She has co-edited four other anthologies for CALYX Books that include: "Women and Aging, Florilegia, A Line of Cutting Women," and "Bearing Witness/ Sobreviviendo." Beverly McFarland is Senior Editor of CALYX. Micki Reaman is Managing Editor of CALYX.