She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey through Poems [NOOK Book]

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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these ...

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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.

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Caroline Kennedy's anthology takes its title from a poem by Lord Byron, but her selection of poems about women travels far beyond enthroned Romantics. To convey the breadth of female experience, editor Kennedy includes verse by Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, and others. A treasure to peruse at random or by whim.

Elizabeth Lund
The book's 13 sections explore various facets of womanhood, from love and motherhood to work, beauty and clothes, and growing old. Kennedy introduces each subject with an appealing blend of personal anecdotes and helpful observations about the poems…[she] knows when to change styles or moods so that these pieces feel fresh and broaden the audience's exposure to the genre…Kennedy has shown again [that] the right editor and guide can lead many readers into poetry's vital yet often-overlooked landscape.
—The Washington Post
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Library Journal
For Kennedy, poetry has the great gift of "shap[ing] an endless conversation about the most important things in life." She learned that when she turned 50 and three friends sent her poems that afforded her both comfort and guidance. Thereafter she began creating this anthology of nearly 200 poems addressing the various stages of a woman's life, among them "Falling in Love," "Motherhood," "Death and Grief," and, yes, "Beauty, Clothes, and Things of This World." Many of the poems here are expected, e.g., Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee," but others are delightful discoveries or reminders. Consider Kim Addonizio's "What Do Women Want?": "I want a red dress/ I want it flimsy and cheap/ I want it too tight/ I want to wear it/ until someone tears it off me." Or Paneshia Jones's "Bra Shopping": "At sixteen I am a jeans and t-shirt wearing tomboy who can think/ a few million more places to be…." Or Anna Swir's "The Greatest Love": "Her dear one says: You have hair like pearls.'/ Her children say:/ Old fool.' " The poets range from Sappho to Shakespeare to Plath, and Kennedy has the nerve to open with Gertrude Stein. VERDICT All in all, a warm and comfortable anthology for anyone (men, too) seeking solace in verse. [See the Q&A with Kennedy on p. 74.—Ed.]—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401325954
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 4/5/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 74,137
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy serves as president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She is the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense with Ellen Alderman. She lives in New York City.

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