A paean to the many women who fig­ured in the Resis­tance: their spir­it, their courage, what they might have thought, con­sid­ered, sac­ri­ficed, and accom­plished, told in lyri­cal free verse that seems to impel the read­er to share the lines with an audi­ence, a sin­gle lis­ten­er, or a class­room. Even though the author’s words pop­u­late each poem, I hear the voic­es of the women she chan­nels and whom I, too, have met through their writ­ings and the writ­ings of oth­ers. Now I feel as if they are speak­ing to me.