Leaving Footsteps An Anthology of Poetry by Southwestern Ontario Women

In Leaving Footsteps, 33 female poets of Southwestern Ontario share the diversity of the feminine experience within this regional landscape, and in general. Authors such as Rishma Dunlop, Ellen Jaffe, Joy Hewitt Mann and Lynn Tait explore the issues of mothering, aging, tradition, grief, domesticity and romance in words that do not attempt to define womanhood, but to refine the feminine spirit from prescribed boundaries. Interacting with the joys and struggles of femininity is a geographic identity, and for many, "home" becomes more than a backdrop for living. This collection of poems celebrates the uniqueness of both womanhood and Southwestern Ontario, probing the manner by which land and gender communally absorb into the human psyche.Iskov, I. B. is the author of 'Leaving Footsteps An Anthology of Poetry by Southwestern Ontario Women', published 2006 under ISBN 9780887533990 and ISBN 088753399X.