I can honestly say that Innovative Women Poets is one of the best literary collections I've ever read. The collection includes poetry from literary greats likes Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua, Jayne Cortez, Sonia Sanchez, Susan Howe, Harryette Mullen and so many others. More interesting that these well-written poems is the interviews included in the collection. The interviews not only provide readers with great insight about the poetry and the writers, they are theoretical in nature - perfect for people seeking to learn literary theory and criticism without studying those you're bound to find in the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (which, let me state now, is not a bad collection - it's just VERY Eurocentric...white + male = good and everything else is jammed in the back of the text).

Anyway, I totally recommend Innovative Women Poets, the collection is on time and just what I needed as a student of literature.