books by Becky Gould Gibson

books by Becky Gould Gibson

books:

Becky Gould Gibson

Need-Fire
Becky Gould Gibson

Bright Hill Press, 2007

NEED-FIRE is a sequence of letters and monologues from people connected with double monasteries in seventh-century England. The dominant voices are those of Hild, her kinswoman and successor Aelfflaed, and Ely's abbess Etheldreda. Little is known of these women; the poems begin where history leaves off.

Aphrodite's Daughter
Becky Gould Gibson

Texas Review Press, 2008

From villages in Crete to Carolina farms to San Francisco pavement, the women in these poems struggle to live by their own lights, despite pressure for them to serve as mere appendages to men. Aphrodite's Daughter tells stories of women in myth, history, art, and contemporary life. The goddess's daughter, fed up with her role in her mother's ...