Crime against nature / Minnie Bruce Pratt.
"Designated as the prestigious 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and winner of the 1991 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, Pratt's Crime Against Nature is a stunning achievement. This beautifully crafted sequence of poems takes its title from...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Firebrand Books,
[1990]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Summary: | "Designated as the prestigious 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and winner of the 1991 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, Pratt's Crime Against Nature is a stunning achievement. This beautifully crafted sequence of poems takes its title from language in the statute under which the author could have been prosecuted as a lesbian if she had sought legal custody of her children. These are poems of despair, self-doubt, sexual bliss, sexual shame, exhilaration, rage, hope, victory. In Crime Against Nature, Pratt breathes new life into the words lesbian, poet, mother. Without contradiction or self-denial, she holds herself, her loves, and her children in a world of passion, of power being realized, of wholeness."--AUTHOR WEBSITE. |
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Item Description: | "The Lamont poetry selection for 1989." |
Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 23 cm |
Awards: | Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1991. |
ISBN: | 0932379729 9780932379726 |