num_pages: 96
description: "The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody--language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."--Boston Evening Globe
language: English
title: The Dream of a Common Language
titlecomplete: The Dream of a Common Language
genres: Literature, American, Feminism, Queer, Classics, Womens, LGBT, Poetry, Lesbian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6164
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company