Eve / Anne Hebert --

On myself I / Leah Goldberg --

This thing only / Anna Rydstedt-Dannstedt --

Sonnet to Eurydice / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen --

To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Bugos --

I've never got anything / Gloria Fuertes --

Now / Gloria Fuertes --

Women songs I / Kadia Molodowsky --

Years / Anna Margolin --

It may be / Alfonsina Storni --

A window / Forugh Farrokhzad --

[My father has big skin like a soldier's cape] / Venus Khoury --

To my father / Blaga Dmitrova --

Ladybird (memory of my mother) / Ingrid Jonker --

Self portrait 1 / Tove Ditlevsen --

Self portrait 2 / Tove Ditlevsen --

Mechanical doll / Forugh Farrokhzad --

Portrait / Dahlia Ravikovitch --

Moir hatching / Nuala ni Dhomhnaill --

The kiwi bird / Nina Cassian --

A sword / Karin Boye --

Song for a young girl's puberty ceremony / Anonymous (Papago) --

Song for a girl on her first menstruation / Anonymous (Boikin) --

Pregnant woman / Ingrid Jonker --

Song of a woman in labor / Anonymous (Papago) --

Song for bringing a child into the world / Anonymous (Seminole) --

the choice / Anonymous (Ten'a) --

The first shoe / Maire Mhac an tSaoi --

I have the right / Ana Blandiana --

Ballad of the ten casino dancers / Cecilia Meireles --

Clockwork doll / Dahlia Ravikovitch --

Song of the old woman / Anonymous (Eskimo) --

The voices of Eden / Else Lasker-Schuler --

We shall not escape hell / Marina Tsvetayeva --

A love song / Else Lasker-Schuler --

[Desire makes you] / Ann Smith --

[This evening] / Nadia Tueni --

Secret / Maria Teresa Horta --

From Return to Frankfurt / Marie Luise Kaschnitz --

Love charm songs / Anonymous (Chippewa) --

My love has departed / Anonymous (Chippewa) --

Why should I be jealous / Anonymous (Chippewa) --

When I think of him / Anonymous (Chippewa) --

I'm taking off ... / Barbro Backberger --

Time of waiting in Amsterdam / Ingrid Jonker --

Poem / Celia Dropkin --

[Our walls were thick] / Venus Khoury --

[Backed up against time] / Venus Khoury --

[I discover you in bits and pieces] / Odette Aslan.

Love/ Edith Sodergran --

[And there is nothing at all --

neither fear] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya --

a woman's song, about men / Anonymous (Eskimo) --

Brief landing / Sarah Kirsch --

Wedding / Maria Banus --

from Poem of the end / Marina Tsvetayeva --

Wisdom has broken my arms / Anne Hebert --

The breadwinner / Amrita Pritam --

The marital problem I / Sonja Akesson --

Divorce I / Tove Ditlevsen --

Divorce 3 / Tove Ditlevsen --

from Epitaph / Marina Tsvetayeva --

Sister, The second wife, The abandoned / Mririda n'Ait Attik --

Goddam the empty sky / Violeta Parra --

Listen / Sophia de Mello Brener Andresen --

Spring in the woods, [a veil where], [to wake in a], Matinal / Marguerite Clerbout --

Autumn, Silence / Bella Akhmadulina --

Water without sound, Leaves, Spoil / Malka Heifetz Tussman --

[The cricket sings on Twelfth-night] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya --

Last brightness, Illuminations 2 / Leah Goldberg --

Tonight / Ada Negri --

Poem / Teresa Torres --

Proportion poetry / Majken Johansson --

Change of scene / Ellen Warwond --

[Of course] / Nadia Tueni --

Dark stream / Ingrid Jonker --

Night, Landscape / Anne Hebert --

[The skin like burnt glass or], [Do not think I give any importance], [Noon goes over the withered earth], [The tree has crashed down in the backyard], [Some wine. A bed. Separation from the sounds of the day] / Eeva-Liisa Manner --

Awakening / Antonia Pozzi --

With a ring / Veronica Porumbacu --

Maturity / Isabelle Vukovic --

Pride / Dahlia Ravikovith --

Canzonetta / Antonia Pozzi --

from Tangled hair : Selected Tanka / Yosano Akiko --

Written in the sunset / Hsiung-hung --

from Multitudinous stars and spring waters / Ping -hsin --

Song of a girl journeying to the country of the dead / Anonymous (Trobriand Islands) --

from Requiem 1935-1940 / Anna Akhmatova --

Before the sun rises / Sarah Kirsch --

A man / Nina Cassian --

I feel sorry for the garden / Forugh Farrokhzad --

The drought / Cheng Min --

Our voice / Noemia da Sousa --

Far from the beach / Alda do Espirito Santo.

From behind bars I / Fadwa Tuqan --

The white and the black / Caroline N.M. Khaketla --

Sister / Gabriela Mistral --

Elegy for a woman of no importance Nazik al-Mala'ikah --

The Marina poems / Lucha Corpi --

Stranger / Gabriela Mistral --

Exile / Saniya Salih --

The enemy's testament / Etel Adnan --

Songs that cannot be silenced / Hien Luong --

Harvesting wheat for the public share / Li Chu --

[In the bird scream and whistle] / Natalya Gorbanevskaya --

The Shulamite / Else Lasker-Schuler --

Illumination, from Random thoughts on the love of God / Simone Weil --

Receiving Buddha / Ping-hsin --

Landing / Antonia Pozzi --

Dog and sea / Alfonsina Storni --

White bears / Veronica Porumbacu --

In the blue distance, But look / Nelly Sachs --

Diogenes / Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke --

The death of Moses / Margit Szecsi --

How Hong Kong was destroyed / Dahlia Ravikovitch --

from Cambrian, A suite about the sea and the animals / Eeva-Liisa Manner --

from The third house / Amy Karolyi --

Ikhnaton's night / Agnes Nemes Nagy.