Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

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A diverse collection of poems and prose by historical and contemporary women writers. Many internationally known, these women celebrate the sacredness of women's lives. Women's voices fill the traditional silence about matters central to women's experience - menstruation, sexual intimacy, childbirth, caretaking, household ritual and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women.

The Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewellis the editor ofClaiming the Spirit Within, Cries of the Spirit, Resurrecting GraceandBreaking Free. She is senior minister at the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon. Find her online at www.marilynsewell.com.

Marilyn Sewell has done us all a great service to gather together these voices, some new, some forgotten, all precious resources. The collection, together with Sewell's deeply insightful introduction, traces the spirit in all its dimensions and diversity, expanding our idea of the spiritual impulse. -Susan Griffin, author of Bending Home