Subjects:  1. Gay & Lesbian studies   

Subjects:  1. Lesbians    2. Poetry    3. Women   

Subjects:  1. 20th Century American Poetry    2. American    3. Fiction - General    4. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    5. General    6. Lesbian Studies    7. Lesbians    8. Literary collections    9. Social Science    10. English    11. USA    12. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. American - General    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Criticism and interpretation    5. Feminism and literature    6. History    7. History and criticism    8. Lesbians' writings, American    9. Poetry    10. Rich, Adrienne Cecile    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Women and literature    15. Women's Studies - General    16. American English    17. English    18. Feminism    19. Lesbian studies    20. Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -    21. Social Science / Women's Studies    22. USA   

Reviews (20)

From the grateful author.
I'm taking this opportunity to thank all of you for your reviews.The good ones cheer me.The not so good ones will help me improve my writing.For the contributor of the most scathing review I send a quote borrowed from the forward of a much loved book by Rita Mae Brown.
Review of Psappha
I'm not too good at putting things into words....but I can tell you that I enjoyed reading this story as much as I enjoy Anne McCaffery.You make the characters so real...and describe the surroundings so well that I can see it....It's as though I'm right there, right in the middle of what's going on.I can identify with Psappha...and when the story stopped, I felt that I was hanging in mid air...that it was me in the story.That's how well this story is written....
ho hum
Although faithful to what is known of the ancient poet, this book did not fully hold my attention.I preferred Erica Jong's imaginative and gripping story Sappho's Leap. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - General    4. Fiction / Historical    5. Fiction / Lesbian    6. Historical - General    7. Ancient and Classical    8. Greece    9. Historical    10. Lesbian    11. Modern fiction    12. Poets    13. Poets, Greek    14. Sappho   

Editorial Review

Camille Roy is a writer of poetry and narrative, of essays and autobiography, of work for theater and art exhibit catalogues. In this canny book, characters lurch, lust, and power through line breaks and paragraph breaks. Single words arrest then force the reader to reexamine standard definitions of story and poem, of girl and boy, of consent and abuse, of fantasy. These are sharp, demanding, uncomfortable texts that reward a reader's daring. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. American Contemporary Poetry    3. Fiction    4. Lesbians    5. Literary collections    6. Poetry    7. San Francisco (Calif.)   

Editorial Review

You could simply call this the most important collection of gay and lesbian poetry yet published. It is. -- Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th Century American Poetry    2. 20th century    3. American    4. American poetry    5. Gay men    6. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    7. Gays' writings, American    8. Poetry    9. English    10. Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -    11. USA    12. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

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Best when it avoids the therapy aspect.
Jenny Factor, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon, 2002)
singing the stories history hides
Jenny Factor's often deceptively casual poems wear their prosodic mastery lightly, combining formal fluency and personal urgency, fulfilling a will to make form out of feeling: "This life I've written out and can control."Unraveling at the Name revolves, unravels even, around a remarkable set of skewed sonnet sequences about love requited and un- (and love's various alibis and substitutes), desire and sex and their often awkward relationship (what Factor calls the "urgency of appetite"), marriage, coming out and learning to come, lesbian motherhood, and loneliness.A canzone about fisting informs us that "Forms/binds.Form combines.Form liberates," and this book demonstrates the ways in which all of these propositions can be true, simultaneously and in turn."My story's underneath this history./Turn off the radio.I want to sing," Factor writes, and sing she does.

poems of formal grace and beauty
This is a *perfect* first book -- tight, thoughtful, eloquent. Jenny Factor creates a poetry-novella. Her speaker redefines herself and in the process meditates on the nature of shapes and transformation in poems that are carefully shaped and transforming. The book is also, unexpectedly fun and naughty. Personable and smart. And a quick read. Bravely anchored in the gritty stuff but hinged to the tranforming moment. Like folk song. Zen meditation. Or a pulp novel. Factor turns over the raw facts of sexual awakening, each time with shifting nuances and emphases. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. Lesbians    3. Poetry    4. Single Author    5. Poetry / General   

Subjects:  1. American literature    2. Illinois    3. Jewish authors    4. Lesbians' writings, American    5. Love poetry    6. Poetry   

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Powerful poetry about women's lives
In "Humid Pitch," African-American poet Cheryl Clarke creates a rich collection of narrative poems that tell the lives of a variety of women. As in Clarke's other books, a major emphasis is on the lives and loves of Black lesbians. Sensuous, earthy, and grounded in the vernacular speech of African-Americans, "Humid Pitch" is an excellent example of Clarke's poetic vision.Read more

Subjects:  1. African Americans    2. American - General    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    4. Lesbian Studies    5. Lesbians    6. Narrative poetry, American    7. Poetry   

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A Review of Patti Sirens' Antarctica
Patti Sirens' new book of poetry, Antarctica, is a test of faith, a one-night stand, an unrelenting vision of the world you thought you knew. Here, the world is not a familiar, mundane, surface. In the title poem,"Antarctica" she demands, "look me in the eye when I'mspeaking to you." Once you pick up this book, you wont' dare lookaway.Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. Lesbians    3. Poetry   

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. American Contemporary Poetry    3. Feminism    4. Lesbians    5. Philosophy    6. Poetry    7. English    8. USA   

Subjects:  1. Feminism & Feminist Theory    2. General    3. Jewish Studies    4. Lesbian Studies    5. Poetry    6. Sociology    7. Women's Studies    8. Poetry / General    9. Poetry texts & anthologies   

Subjects:  1. Erotica    2. Erotica - Lesbian    3. Fiction    4. Fiction - Adult    5. Lesbians    6. Lesbians' writings, American    7. Literary collections    8. Sexual behavior    9. Women   

Subjects:  1. Poetry / Single Author / American    2. 20th Century American Poetry    3. American    4. American Contemporary Poetry    5. Bereavement    6. Grief    7. Lesbians    8. Loss (Psychology)    9. Poetry    10. Single Author - American (General)   

Subjects:  1. Greek Literature    2. Greek poetry    3. Translations into English    4. Ancient (Classical) Greek    5. Lesbian studies    6. Literary studies: classical, early & medieval   

Reviews (1)

a cute little book
I read this a decade ago, but I remember it being a cute little book.This is a fictional account of what it would be like to have been Sappho's female lover.It's so interesting to think about this years later.... Still, bisexual female readers may dislike this book because Sappho is portrayed as flighty compared to her all-lesbian lover.This book is kinda rough around the edges, like much 1970s early gay liberation texts.Still, this was cute and worth checking out. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. Fiction - General    3. Greece    4. Historical - General    5. History    6. Lesbian    7. Lesbians    8. Literary    9. To 146 B.C    10. To 146 B.C.    11. Women poets   

Subjects:  1. Lesbianism    2. Mental illness    3. Poetry    4. Women   

Subjects:  1. Lesbianism    2. Poetry   

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. Fiction - General    3. General    4. Ancient (Classical) Greek    5. Ancient Greece    6. Lesbian studies    7. Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval