This bilingual anthology of one hundred poems by nearly fifty women poets writing in Dutch and Flemish is a long-awaited new volume in the groundbreaking Defiant Muse series. The collection ranges from poetry by Hadewych, undeniably the greatest Dutch poet of the 13th century, whose poems about love are rooted in deep mystical experience, to contemporary poets such as Elly de Waard, who worked for twenty years as a rock critic, leads the group of women poets known as "The New Savages", and writes ecstatic, explicitly lesbian poetry.