Lesbian poetry, an anthology /

Lesbian poetry, an anthology / edited by Elly Bulkin & Joan Larkin.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bulkin, Elly, 1944-, Larkin, Joan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Persephone Press, [1981]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lesbians > Poetry.
Lesbians' writings, American.
American poetry > 20th century.
Lesbian poetry.
LGBTQ+ poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction -A Look at Lesbian Poetry
  • For the Goddess Too Well Known ; Cunts Have Faces: Dialogue Among Rumpled Sheets / Elsa Gidlow (b. 1898)
  • The Muse as Medusa / May Sarton (b. 1912)
  • "Do you remember now the night that we" ; "It seems unlikely that we'll talk again" / Jean Mollison (b. 1918)
  • To Judith, Taking Leave; Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev ; A Woman Dead in her Forties ; Transcendental Etude ; Transit / Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
  • Equinox ; Love Poem ; Black Mother Woman ; To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train ; 125th Street and Abomey ; Between Ourselves ; Power ; Need: A Choral of Black Women's Voices / Audre Lorde (b. 1934)
  • Emma ; She Is an Older Person Now / Clare Coss (b. 1935)
  • Genealogy ; Due Process ; For All the Lovers Among Us / Frankie Hucklenbroich (b. 1939)
  • Sayre (Woman Professor) / Lynn Strongin (b. 1939)
  • Song (for female voices) ; Rhyme of My Inheritance ; "Vagina" Sonnet ; Some Unsaid Things ; Stop ; Notations
  • the F Train ; Blood ; Native Tongue / Joan Larkin (b. 1939)
  • Because Words Do Not Suffice ; Lilith of the Wildwood, of the Fair Places ; Love Poem/for a Capricorn ; Amerika / Susan Sherman (b. 1939)
  • Madonna of the Hills ; Wool Season ; Riding the Thunder ; Creation Story ; Powwow '79, Durango ; Beloved Women / Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939)
  • 'From' The Common Woman Poems ; A History of Lesbianism ; "I am the wall at the lip of the water" ; "the woman whose head is on fire" ; "She Who continues" ; 'from' A Woman Is Talking to Death ; A Funeral Plainsong from a Younger Woman to an Older Woman / Judy Grahn (b. 1940)
  • death camp ; they're always curious ; they did not build wings for them ; 'from' The Monkey House and Other Cages ; Contexts / Irena Klepfisz (b. 1941)
  • Unfinished ; Pieces of Echoes / Rota Silverstrini (b. 1941)
  • "i am a woman in ice" / Martha Courtot (b. 1941)
  • Coming Out / Jacqueline Lapidus (b. 1941)
  • Fever; Territory / Susan Wood-Thompson (b. 1942)
  • Up from D.C. ; Home, and I've ; Peterborough / Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)
  • I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman ; The Song of the Woman with Her Parts Coming Out ; This is the Story of the Day in the Life of a Woman Trying ; Waiting for Truth ; Breviary / Susan Griffin (b. 1943)
  • Yesterday (about Gertrude and Alice) ; Dyke Jacket ; Fran Winant (b. 1943)
  • Siblings ; Dykes in the Garden / Sharon Barba (b. 1943)
  • November Passage / Judith McDaniel (b. 1943)
  • Revolutionary Blues / Julie Blackwoman (b. 1943)
  • The Tree of Begats / Martha Shelley (b. 1943)
  • grandmother's little feet / Bobbie Bishop (b. 1944)
  • Sappho's Reply / Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944)
  • "from cavities of bones" ; A Small Contradiction ; For Willyce ; "Movement in Black" ; Where Will You Be? ; Pat Parker (b. 1944)
  • Brooklyn, 1956: The Walls Are Full of Noise ; Trojan / Melanie Kaye (b. 1945)
  • First Time: 1950 ; Poem: For the Beginning / Honor Moore (b. 1945)
  • "The First Separation" / Elise Young (b. 1946)
  • A Woman's Tribal Belt ; Keeping Still, Mountain / Willyce Kim (b. 1946)
  • Azteca IV / Ana Kowalkowska (b. 1946)
  • Oconeechee Mountain ; Rape ; The Sound of One Fork ; "My mother loves women" ; The Segregated Heart / Minnie Bruce Pratt (b. 1946)
  • Tres Mujeres en el Gabinete/Three Women in the Closet / Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1946)
  • Obsolete Geography / Michelle Cliff (b. 1946)
  • Theft / Barbara Smith (b. 1946)
  • Bushpaths ; Voices from the Diaspora Home / Wilmette Brown (b. 1946)
  • Palm-Reading ; Freedom Flesh / Cheryl Clarke (b. 1947)
  • Six Years / Alice Bloch (b. 1947)
  • The Receptionist Is by Definition ; Making the Difference / Karen Brodine (b. 1947)
  • Groves II ; A Romance ; Farewell ; ode to my true nature / Ellen Marie Bissert (b. 1947)
  • South Bronx Girl / Esther Silverman (b. 1948)
  • "At 20, I began to know" / Becky Birtha (b. 1948)
  • The White Worm / Alison Colbert (b. 1949)
  • Notes from the First Year / Susan Saxe (b. 1949)
  • Boston Massachusetts / Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
  • the knife & the bread ; Amazon Twins ; Artemis ; Sometimes as a child ; Sleeping Beauty ; "with the clear/plastic speculum" / Olga Broumas (b. 1949)
  • Your Olive Face / Lorraine Sutton (b. 1949)
  • The Resemblance / Ruthe D. Canter (b. 1950)
  • likeness ; Sestina, Winchell's Donut House ; dialectics / Jan Clausen (b. 1950)
  • "She hated the rain" ; New York City Tonight / Sapphire
  • The Landing / Robin Becker (b. 1951)
  • Making Love to Alice / M.F. Hershman (b. 1951)
  • One, The Other, And / Wendy Brooks Wieber (b. 1951)
  • The Community of Women Causes an Operation ; Finally I See Your Skin / Eleanor Lerman (b. 1952)
  • Ceres in an Open Field / Jane Creighton (b. 1952)
  • When I was a Fat Woman / Rebecca Gordon (b. 1952)
  • the words of a woman who breathes fire: one / Kitty Tsui (b. 1952)
  • Like I Am to No One ; You Upset the Whole System of This Place ; For the Color of My Mother ; For Amber / Cherrie Moraga (b. 1952)
  • Strawberries / Barbara Noda (b. 1953)
  • The Hymns My Mother Sang / Wendy Stevens (b. 1953)
  • A Rape Poem for Men ; When People Ask / Donna Allegra (b. 1953)
  • She's / Osa Hidalgo-de la Riva (b. 1954)
  • Sister / Felice Newman (b. 1956)
  • Lesbian Poetry in the Classroom.

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