Back in print, a unique volume of persona poems celebrating the joys of flight. This revised edition of Pat Valdata’s prizewinning book includes new poems that help revise the history of women’s earliest achievements in aviation.
“In poetic forms as varied, and often as witty, as their subjects Pat Valdata celebrates her airborne heroines with gusto, delight, and an exuberant sense of the sheer fun of the enterprise.... It's a triumph, at once whimsical and earnest in its celebration of pioneering women in flight.” ̶ Dick Davis, contest judge
The history-making women are Florence Lowe “Pancho” Barnes, Lilian Bland, Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, Laura Bromwell, Willa Brown, Alys McKey Bryant, Katya Budenova, Ann Baumgartner Carl, Katherine Cheung, Jackie Cochran, Bessie , Coleman, Aida de Acosta, Raymonde de Laroche, Nadezhda Degtereva, Maxine Dunlap, Hélène Dutrieu, Amelia Earhart, Cornelia Fort, Viola Gentry, Sabiha Gökçen, Mary Highsmith Sims Heinrich, Lea Hing, Laura Ingalls, Amy Johnson, Jeanne Labrosse, Lady Bailey - Mary Westenra , Lady Heath - Sophie Theresa Catherine Mary Pierce-Evans, Ruth Law, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Lydia “Lilya” Litvyak, Nancy Harkness Love, Beryl Markham, Almina Pontius Martin, Marie Marvingt, Mathilde Moissant, Irene McFarland, Bernetta Miller, Mary Hawley Myers, Ruth Nichols, Blanche Noyes, Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, Thérèse Peltier, Jeannette Piccard, Harriet Quimby, Bessica Raiche, Hanna Reitsch, Helen Richey, Mary Riddle, Blanche Stuart Scott, Eula “Pearl” Carter Scott, Elinor Smith, Neta Snook, Rose Isabel Hawkins Spencer, Katherine Stinson, Marjorie Stinson, Louise Thaden, Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout, Marga von Etzdorf, Faye Gillis Wells, and Lidia Zvereva
Softbound, 6 x 9, 184 pages, Item #2394, $15.95
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