Sublime

benevolent

Here was evidently a people highly skilled, efficient, caring for their country as a florist cares for his costliest orchids.

The city of Florence lost 50,000 of its 100,000 inhabitants.

Authentic.

he produced another tribute,

It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.

Rita Dove, Anne Sexton, Louise Bogan, Diane Wakoski, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Muriel Rukeyser, Judith Viorst, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Maxine Kumin, Diane Ackerman, Shirley Kaufman, May Sarton, Cherríe Moraga, Marianne Moore—can

but these women aren't WOMANLY.

summer resort—just Girls and Girls and Girls—and