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...BOOK OF WOMEN POETS FROM ANTIQUITY TO NOW Edited by Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone; Schocken; 612 pages...
...anthology is a father and daughter enterprise. Poet Willis Barnstone translated, alone or in collaboration, 276 of the 788 poems. Aliki Barnstone, also a poet and a contributor to the book, joined with her father in selecting the 311 poets represented. In scope and quality of translation, their work surpasses such previous efforts as the Penguin Book of Women Poets and The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation. The editors have devoted several pages to such major figures as Enheduanna (c. 2300 B.C.), the first writer in history, male or female, whose work has been preserved...
Once Tutankhamun returned from the tomb, it was inevitable that publishers would discover the Nile. Several have done so, simultaneously vulgarizing the past and present. But two new books offer a deep understanding of how people looked and thought a world ago. In Mummies Made in Egypt (Crowell; $8.95), Aliki unravels the secrets of ba, the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul, and ka, the invisible twin of the deceased. Both ba and ka wandered after death, and they could only return to a recognizable body-hence the art of preservation. Aliki's crisp narrative and delicate artwork never...
...LORD, I WISH I WAS A BUZZARD, by Polly Greenberg (Macmillan; $4.50). This matter-of-fact rendering of a day in the cotton fields is somewhat removed from the modern child's experiences. The illustrations in brown and orange by Aliki catch the polka-dot bleakness of the Southern landscape at cotton-picking time...
...modern, have long been the arbiters of womanly beauty, but their local queens have an uncertain record. Venus won the golden apple from Paris the shepherd, but helped him provoke the Trojan War; Callisto won the glances of Juno's husband, and was promptly turned into a bear; Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Greece of 1929, dressed up in men's clothes and smuggled herself into the monks' sanctuary on Mount Athos that had stood, inviolate, since the Byzantine Empire. The following year the contests were discontinued, and in 1936 Strongman Metaxas decreed that no woman should go abroad...