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Who are some great female poets?

rousseau

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Over the last few days I had an opportunity to read quite a bit of Leonard Cohen, and I realized that I'm intimately familiar with my own viewpoint as a male, as well the perspectives of a whole array of other men via poetry. With that, I thought it'd be interesting to start seeking out the poetry of women throughout history, to get more familiar with that type of perspective.

Doing a quick search on Google, though, it's almost impossible to pick someone to look into, so I wonder if anyone has suggestions on which great female poets to look into.
 
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Gertrude Stein
Mary Oliver
Adrienne Rich

and so very many others.

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now looks like a very comprehensive sampling.
 
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