Crime Against Nature: The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1989 - Softcover

Pratt, Minnie Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932379729 ISBN 13: 9780932379726

Publisher: Firebrand Books, 1990

Synopsis

Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first title from Sapphic Classics, a co-edition between Sinister Wisdom Magazine and A Midsummer Night's Press to reprint seminal works of lesbian poetry. "In spare and forceful language Minnie Bruce Pratt tells a moving story of loss and recuperation, discovering linkages between her own disenfranchisement and the condition of other minorities. She makes it plain, in this masterful sequence of poems, that the real crime against nature is violence and oppression.--From the Judges' Statement, Lamont Poetry Prize 1989, CRIME AGAINST NATURE "Minnie Bruce Pratt's CRIME AGAINST NATURE is, for a number of reasons, a work at the poetic crossroads. It extends the subject of love poetry; it extends the subject of feminist and lesbian poetry; it looks in several directions through the lens of a strong, sensuous poetics, through that fusion of experience with imagination that is the core of poetry, and through cadences founded in the music of speech, tightened and drawn to an individual pitch."--Adrienne Rich

About this title

About the Author

Minnie Bruce Pratt is a poet, essayist, activist, and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection is Inside the Money Machine (Carolina Wren Press, 2010). CRIME AGAINST NATURE won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1989.

Review

All The Women Caught In Flaring Light: 1
All The Women Caught In Flaring Light: 2
All The Women Caught In Flaring Light: 3
Another Question: 1
Another Question: 2
At Fifteen, The Oldest Son Comes To Visit: 1
At Fifteen, The Oldest Son Comes To Visit: 2
At Fifteen, The Oldest Son Comes To Visit: 3
At Fifteen, The Oldest Son Comes To Visit: 4
At Fifteen, The Oldest Son Comes To Visit: 5
At The Vietnam Memorial
The Child Taken From The Mother
Crime Against Nature: 1
Crime Against Nature: 2
Crime Against Nature: 3
Crime Against Nature: 4
Crime Against Nature: 5
Crime Against Nature: 6
Declared Not Fit
Down The Little Cahaba
Dreaming A Few Minutes In A Different Element: 1
Dreaming A Few Minutes In A Different Element: 2
Dreaming A Few Minutes In A Different Element: 3
Dreaming A Few Minutes In A Different Element: 4
The First Question
I Am Ready To Tell All I Know
In The Waiting Room At The Draft Board
Justice, Come Down
The Laughing Place
The Mother Before Memory: 1
The Mother Before Memory: 2
The Mother Before Memory: 3
The Mother Before Memory: 4
The Mother Before Memory: 5
Motionless On The Dark Side Of The Light
My Life You Are Talking About
No Place
The Place Lost And Gone, The Place Found
Poem For My Sons
Seven Times Going, Seven Coming Back
Shame: 1
Shame: 2
Shame: 3
Shame: 4
Shame: 5
Sounds From My Previous Life
Talking To Charlie
Two Small-sized Girls: 1
Two Small-sized Girls: 2
Two Small-sized Girls: 3
A Waving Hand
While Reading Timerman's The Longest War
--Table of contents

Edition details

• Publisher: Firebrand Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0932379729
• ISBN 13: 9780932379726
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128