Even though this is an excellent collection for what it sets out to do one has to ask why in this day and age only 10 women writers are included among the nearly 200 authorswhen excellent writing by women throughout the last 2000 years from around the world is now easily found via the internet and in other more complete collectionsfor a start a reader might like to consider the gems included in a book of women poets from antiquity to now by aliki barnstone and willis barnstone or the