The Defiant Muse: Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems Fro: A Bilingual Anthology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	[Sir Halewin he sang a song]	25
	[The East's alight with dawning]	31
	[The day will no more hidden be]	33
	[The nightingale sang a song]	35
	The Song of the Plow	37
	Anne Marieken	39
	Song V	41
	Ninth Letter	43
	The Paradoxes of Love	45
	Refrain XXVII "Marriage would be fine if it weren't plagued with worry"	47
	To Miss Anna Maria Schuermans	51
	To Miss Johanna Comans	53
	To Miss Georgette de Monteneij	55
	Revolt Against Cupid	55
	Challenge (to M. D.)	57
	To J. D. H.	59
	To Miss Cornelia van der Veer	61
	Better Brown than Blonde	61
	Constancy of the Inconstant	63
	Inconstancy	63
	The Perfect Man	63
	Lycaon	65
	To the Gentlemen of the Board of the Poetry Society in The Hague	65
	To Miss Agatha Deken	71
	Love of Friendship	73
	Epitaph for Robespierre	75
	At the passing away of our third daughter, Adelheide Irene, named after her two deceased sisters	75
	[Once I danced in a Csarda]	75
	[I do not want to meet you as before]	77
	My Soul's Awakening	79
	Mother of Fishermen	79
	Willow-Wood	81
	A la Omar Khayyam	81
	Dance	83
	Biographical	83
	The Rats	85
	To M. Vasalis	85
	Archaic Gravestone	87
	Sappho	87
	The Witch	89
	Peas	89
	Mother Musing	91
	Biology	93
	Don't Whine	93
	Bronte, Dickinson & Co	97
	Inspiration	97
	So-Called	97
	Cry	99
	Virgo	99
	[I saw Cassandra in the concert hall]	101
	[Eggshells filled to the brim]	101
	[The triumphant mothers]	103
	[Somewhere in the house]	103
	[I was three years old or so]	103
	[Your face unrecognizable]	105
	Argo	105
	The third epitaph for Kira van Kasteel	107
	The ninth epitaph for Kira van Kasteel	109
	A Whore's Prayer	109
	On My Thirtieth Birthday	111
	Interpretation of the View	113
	He	115
	Predestination	115
	Mice	117
	Warning	117
	Letter	119
	Shipwrecked	119
	Modern Times	121
	Humanism for Those Who Live in Cramped Quarters	121
	In Reply to Your Letter	123
	Looking for Gertrude Stein	123
	nostalgia	125
	[it is the black ghosts]	127
	[and after your descent]	127
	Bad Zwischenahn, 1964	129
	Lovers Lovers	129
	The Sailor	129
	The Dishwasher	131
	Time	133
	The Bottom Step	133
	[The ribs of the bridge are laid out]	135
	[On silver feet the cutlery]	137
	[Who can read Plato's Symposium]	137
	Anadyomene	139
	[The mountains smoke from the autumn-fires]	141
	Pentecost Morning	141
	IV [Kapok. The hideaway bed. Just wasted time?]	143
	V [Deep in the pit that holds her skeleton]	143
	VII [A dress trimmed with bands of satin]	145
	VIII [Shelter her shadow was for me]	147
	IX [The room is one that's back to scale]	147
	When I looked up	149
	Conversation with the Kids	149
	From the Kitchen	151
	[don't turn your face away - my mother]	153
	[they see our perishing as failed harvest]	153
	The herons of Amsterdam, the duchess and the zebras	157
	Language	159
	[later on the snow will come]	161
	[she wished she could recover something]	161
	In the Dressing Room of the Department Store	163
	Prince Day	165
	[if men could bleed]	167
	[my love, a ship full of tears]	167
	[Suppose we came from Atlantis]	169
	On the quayside stands a house	171
	The Mountain Goat	171
	Babette	171
	She cries. She laughs	173
	We are Night Dynamos	173
	Endnotes	175
	Notes on the Poets	177
	Notes on the Editors and Translators	187
	Credits	189