An intricate weave : [electronic resource] women write about girls and girlhood / edited by Marlene Miller ; with an introduction by Kristen Golden.

On Nina, nightingales and surviving the night / Laura S. Distelheim -- Between gardens / Davi Walders -- Spacebaby / Kelly Cherry -- Hybrid / Meg Kerr -- First flight / Adrienne Ross -- Snake / Martha Gies -- Though a glass, lightly / Carolyn Kizer -- Stage fright / Lisa Williams Kline -- The power of poetry : for Marisol / Joyce Goldenstern -- My hot chocolate friend / Ann Cooper -- A rock and a hard place / Hawk Madrone -- Independence / Heather C. Liston -- Summer's child / Patricia J. Washburn -- From needlework to life / Dolores DeLuise -- A Russian Easter / Bim Harrison -- Rolling dough / Julia Alvarez -- In gratitude / Grace Fill -- Portrait of my mother as an artist / Marion Abbott -- Solfeggietto / Adrienne Rich -- Violin lessons / Jessica Treat -- Moving through space / Mary Rohrer-Dann -- Broken glass / Alice Bolstridge -- La montaña / Carmen Giménez-Roselló -- Remember? / Alice Walker -- A name for everything / Danielle D'Ottavio Harned -- Thanking my mother for piano lessons / Dian Wkoski -- Beach girl / Margaret Willey -- Climbing the tower / Diane Wang -- Morning gift / Shellie Corcoran -- Growing up female / Emily Hancock -- What does Madonna know? / Miriam Karmel Feldman -- Bodily harm / Peggy Orenstein -- Good-bye, Laura Petrie / Verna L. Williams -- In my own skin / Cecelia Engel Bandman -- Young springtime / Janice Levy -- Rib '62 / Audrey Ferber -- What kind of boy / Elizabeth Graver -- The master bed / Julia Alvarez -- Edge of twelve / Judith Kirkwood -- The steep hill / Joanne Zimmerman -- holly / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- And go seek / Faye Moskowitz -- The white house / Ameilia A. Free -- The scavengers / Wendy Ann Ryden -- A minstrel visits / Sandell Morse -- Girl at a piano / Julie Parson-Nesbitt -- Flying dreams / Ann Roy -- Sweet fifteen / Cynthia Morgan Dale -- This morning / Lucille Clifton -- Tina / Laurie Stapleton -- Golden arches / Karen Benke -- Running / Sarah Silbert -- Death by vending machine / Alyce Miller -- The trouble with names / Shannon Goecke -- Twirling / Noëlle Sickels -- Gifts / Edith Pearlman -- Breaking tradition / Janice Mirikitani -- Mother's Day thoughts / Judy Mahle Lutter -- My daughters' gifts to me / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Lucy and her girls / Lucille Clifton -- Lifelines / Lynn Stearns -- The blessing / Carolyn Kizer -- Growing pains / Ní Aódagaín -- Song for Elisabeth / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Lallita / Judith Sornberger -- Home movies / Rochelle Distelheim -- The secret / Denise Levertov -- Twenty-fifth reunion / Naomi F. Eber -- Not one of those girls / CB Follett -- There is a girl inside / Lucille Clifton.

A "collection of stories, essays, memoirs and poems by women writing about the girls in their lives and in the world today, and also about their own girlhoods and the girl who remains within."--Cover.