Florilegia

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A Retrospective of CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 1976-86

COVER
Design by Debi Berrow

Edited by the CALYX Editorial Collective

Features the work of Julia Alvarez, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kingsolver, & Ursula K. Le Guin

 

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Description

The CALYX Editorial Collective is the recipient of numerous awards including the Stewart H. Holbrook Award and CCLM Editors’ awards.

Florilegia: a culling of flowers, anthologies of writings. Calyx: “the protective covering on the flowerbud. The bud blossoms as the calyx opens and falls away. The flower in all its magnificence becomes the centerpiece of the plant.”

What is trimmed away and kept fresh for the eyes is beautiful, as is this retrospective of work by 96 women artists and writers; a tapestry with images, themes, and styles that highlights the recurring concerns of an era while acclaiming the talents of creative women. A zeitgeist of CALYX Journal’s first decade, Florilegia presents a vision that is challenging, incisive, and life-affirming. Some of the finest literature and art by 96 women published during CALYX Journal’s first decade, including Sharon Olds, Paula Gunn Allen, Julia Alvarez, Olga Broumas, Monica Sjöo, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Layton, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Eleanor Wilner.

From the introduction: “Florilegia offers the creative thinking of a female consciousness that in its critical reflection may present an impetus for action, a spark in the darkness lighting a new path. In the work presented interrelationships can be found between patriarchal attitudes toward that which is female and patriarchal attitudes toward mother earth.”

POETRY
Sharon Olds The Language of the Brag
Judith W. Steinbergh Arguing with Joyce
Guri Andermann Syllogisms
Alexa Hollywood Poet
Jane Hirshfield The Stream of It
Sharon Doubiago From: Oedipus Drowned
Beth Bentley Abraham’s Wife
Anne Young Drowning
Ellen Bass Even This
Ursula K. Le Guin Menstrual Lodge
Barbara Kingsolver Remember the Moon Survives
Your Mother’s Eyes
Renny Golden Guatemalan Exodus: Los Naturales
Eleanor Wilner The Last Man
Bailing Out—A Poem for the 1970s
Sujata Bhatt Search for My Tongue
Yolanda Mancilla Niña
Gail Tremblay Urban Indians, Pioneer Square, Seattle
Diane Glancy Great Indian Father in the Subway
Lyn Lifshin I Remember Haifa Being Lovely But
Marean L. Jordan Tamsen Donner at Alder Creek
Barbara Baldwin October Light
Jan Clausen Sestina, Winchell’s Donut House
Wendy Rose Earth Place
Sheila Demetre Women of Salt
Paula Gunn Allen Weed
Li Chi On Arriving at Ling-Nan, January 1949
Mary Tallmountain Birthing
Ingrid Wendt Having Given Birth
Jana Zvibleman (When she is 18, of whichever moon)
Pearl Bond Jewish Mother
Marjorie Agosin Mi Estomago (My Belly)
Terri L. Jewell Sistah Flo
Darlene Mathis-Eddy Widow’s Walk
Marily Folkestad Speaking in Tongues
Olga Broumas Song/For Sanna
Ellen Bass To Praise
Marilyn Hacker Aubade II
Rebecca Gordon Sonnet on a New Bed
Natalie Goldberg Tow Iowa Farmers
Coming Together
Olga Broumas Amazon Twins
Joan Larkin Risks:
Alfonsina Storni You Want Me White
Sibyl James Real Vanilla
Julia Alvarez Against Cinderella
Paulann Petersen I Listen to Alice Walker on a Pocket Radio
Colleen McElroy Learning to Swim at Forty-Five
Pesha Gertler The Season of Bitter Root and Snake Venom
Pat Mora Bruja: Witch
Rebecca Gordon La Revolución Es Una Chavala de Cinco Años
ART
Faedra Kosh Sphere
Celeste Rehm Alternate Way to Enter a Room
Carol Gates Descending Triangle
Ada Medina Ejemplo
Cuento
Melanie Tolbert Untitled
Robin Lasser Wall Fragment from Cliff Dwelling
Swiss Barn
Joanna Priestley Megalithic Tomb Illumination
Paula King The Day I Left My Vacuum Cleaner
Graça Martins Black Birds
Frida Kahlo Friday y la Cesarea
Barbara Thomas Communion
When Two Dance It’s a Couple
Katherine Gorham The Patriotic Girls
Zuleyka Benitez Small-Footed Ladies of the S.L.A. Moments Before the End
Carolyn Cárdenas Self-Portrait Series, #2
Claudia Cave Night Life
Paula Ross Alternate Way to Enter a Room
Carol Gates Pinky Gales
Elizabeth Layton Self-Portrait as the Statue of Liberty
Elouise Ann Clark Disguises of a Raven’s Night
Mary Riley Ancient America I
Linda Lomahaftewa Evening Parrot and New Moon
Paula Lumbard Migration
Jennifer Stabler-Holland The Dress
Patricia Forsberg The Visitation: Where Should I Put My Suitcase?
Monica Sjoo Saint Non’s Well
Charleen Touchette On the River Again
Vicki Folkerts-Coots Lineage
Frida Kahlo Autorretrato Como Tehuana
Ester Hernandez Woman with Fire
Mary Hatch Bye Bye Birdie
Betty LaDuke Latin America: Timeless Time
The Cassowary’s Child
Silvia Santal Untitled
Meredith Jenkins Grandmother’s Gloves II
Linda Joan Miller Untitled
Sandra McKee Self-Portrait as Mary Martin as Peter Pan
Faedra Kosh Shining Woman #11 (Amber)
Ann Meredith Tushu
Janet Culbertson Beginning “Women A New Myth”
Dana Leigh Squires SP #1
Ronna Neuenschwander Demi Tut Cups, Pyramid Teapot
Lisa von Rosenstiel Hawaiian Shirt & Dicko’s Skirt
Anne Noggle Shelly and Her Sister Mim
Margaret Randall Mother and Daughter
Acoma Woman
Anne Noggle Agnes in Fur Collar
Deborah Klibanoff Always Looking
Myrna Yoder The Dance
Renée Romanowski Seeds
Elizabeth Layton Stroke
Martha Wehrle Self-Portrait
Deidre Scherer Maria in Memory
PROSE
Carol Orlock There Are Colors
Laurel Rust Another Part of the Country
Jan Clausen Yellow Jackets
Linda Hogan Crow
M. Ann Spiers The Last Fringie
Andrea Carlisle A Call to Grace
Marisha Chamerblain Firewood
ESSAYS
Diane Glancy Journey to the Any-Yun-Wiyu
Pat Mora Unseen Teachers
The Piano Tuner by C. Naishan
Ingrid Wendt Splitting Open: Finding Sharon Olds’s “Young Mothers IX”
Faedra Kosh The Right Connection
Jennifer Stabler-Holland An Independent Path
Barbara Thomas On Life and Art: An Odyssey
Betty LaDuke Stirring a Ruckus
Gail Tremblay Native American Women’s Art and the Contemporary Movement
Rebecca Gordon Feminism and Literacy
Ursula K. Le Guin A Feminine Inscription
Olga Broumas Bliss
Ada Medina Farewell to Ana
Reviews

“The creative thinking of a female consciousness.”  —Whole Earth Review

“Fine writing by women.”  —Women’s Review of Books

“CALYX collects its finest writing from the last decade.” —USA Today

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