From Fast Speaking Woman by Anne Waldman, she brings into focus her engagement with chant, the spells, the invocations and rituals. Waldman's work is completely nature. She investigates women role to create an energy poetry  about modern womanhood. For instance on page  171-173, she describes a woman that happens to be any woman's thinking; the defined possibilities of what it means to be a woman. The poem is in recognition to Maria Sabina, a shamaness in  Mexico. Waldman's uses internal rhymes and this represent the individual artist and every woman. For instance, she states "I am a shouting woman/I'm a speech woman/ I'm an atmosphere woman/I'm an airtight woman/ I'm a flesh woman/I'm a flexible woman/I'm a high heeled woman/I'm a high style woman/I'm an automobile woman/I'm a mobile woman..." This use of list and tone Waldman's uses explores the connection between words and sounds. The relationship between mental, physical and verbal forms of women.
From Borderlands/La Frontera, The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua. Anzaldua speaks of the borderlands as a place of racial individuals by providing the definition of what it means to constantly exist in a space without a homeland to move forward to or away from. Her prose and poetry are both symbolic. Her analysis of Mestiza is intermingled  with feminism. She explains the misunderstanding of speaking a language that exist in the borderland; a mixture of Spanish and English. On page 190, Anzaldua states that, " To write , to be a writer, I have to trust and believe in myself as a speaker as a voice for the images. I have to believe that I can communicate with images and words and that I can do it well. A lack of belief in my creative self is a lack of belief in my total self and vice versa. I cannot separate my writing from any part of my life. It's all me. Anzaldua really captures what it is like to embrace all the pieces of herself despite societys' limitations. The question of how do we build history, who should tell it and what language reoccurs throughout. The image of women is translated into a new body that claim a new place. Both of these readings focus on women. The fact that women feel oppressed by society's norm, thus, preventing them from reaching their ambitions.