The Distaff Side

Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women's work." What a joy it is to inhabit this world in which the needle and the pen share the labors of love.

"Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women's work." The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a foundation for female artistic expressi...