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It includes two poets I admire, Carole Satyamurti and Judy Gahagan
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"Let us now praise women / with feet glass slippers wouldn't fit" CS
Ah, Adam, your comment is the sort of thing that turns me inside out and makes me enviously ask myself "why didn't you go on to London from Stockholm?" OK, I know the answers, but still..
Aren't they lucky to have you and aren't you lucky to have them!
"Baby, I'm frightened" is, I think, a very young poet's voice. Though much anthologized, I find the poem part and parcel of the romanticized "God's Gift to Women" perspective that young male writers/poets often have of themselves and (hopefully) grow out of. I admit that my appreciation of that poem was not immediate--I initially found it off-putting, and my current appreciation is not for the content but for the take it gives on the human psyche--or parts thereof. Or maybe it just reminds me of "Poets I Have Known".
A fan has many blades.