Gidlow Elsa (73 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. My life is a grey thread / Stretching through Time's day; / But I have slipped gay beads on it / To hide the grey. With On a Grey Thread, Elsa Gidlow became the first North American to publish a book of lesbian love poems. In a modern free verse, Gidlow's poetry of queer resistance and desire continues to astonish today.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. My life is a grey thread / Stretching through Time's day; / But I have slipped gay beads on it / To hide the grey. With On a Grey Thread, Elsa Gidlow became the first North American to publish a book of lesbian love poems. In a modern free verse, Gidlow's poetry of queer resistance and desire continues to astonish today.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread," Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing the double meaning of "gay," offering a brief erotic "moan" on the precipice of enjambment, Gidlow stretches her stanza to its sinful conclusion, recalling Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elsa Gidlow's On a Grey Thread is a classic work of lesbian literature reimagined for modern readers.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread," Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing the double meaning of "gay," offering a brief erotic "moan" on the precipice of enjambment, Gidlow stretches her stanza to its sinful conclusion, recalling Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elsa Gidlow's On a Grey Thread is a classic work of lesbian literature reimagined for modern readers.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 82 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.24 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Paperback. Condition: New. On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread," Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing the double meaning of "gay," offering a brief erotic "moan" on the precipice of enjambment, Gidlow stretches her stanza to its sinful conclusion, recalling Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elsa Gidlow's On a Grey Thread is a classic work of lesbian literature reimagined for modern readers.…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: New. On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread," Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing the double meaning of "gay," offering a brief erotic "moan" on the precipice of enjambment, Gidlow stretches her stanza to its sinful conclusion, recalling Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elsa Gidlow's On a Grey Thread is a classic work of lesbian literature reimagined for modern readers.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. First Edition. xv, 93p., illustrations, first revised edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. As new, from the publisher's final stock after they went out of business. Poetry.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. Paperback, Good. Light shelfwear.

Condition: New.

Wraps. Condition: Good. 8vo, 76 pp. Inscribed and signed on title page by San Marcos Review "aide-de-camp" Robert Lloyd, to poets Geoff Young and Gus Blaisdel, "from David Johnson and me". Light foxing and soiling to wrappers and page edges, wrapper corners lightly bumped, ink marks on bottom edge. Contributors include: Anne Waldman Etta Blum Elsa Gidlow Joy Harjo Irene Klepfisz Paula Gunn Allen Marge Piercy Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Gloria Frym and others. …

Pamphlet. First Edition. [8p] 5.5x8.5 inches, fine chapbook in stapled pictorial lime green wraps. Includes two poems, printed from Roberts' calligraphy. Meditations on mystical experience, which first appeared in Womanspirit, summer solstice edition, 1975.

Magazine. 87p., 8.5x11 inches, oversize trade paperback journal, very good in yellow pictorial wraps.

Condition: New. Large type / Large print edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Staple Bound. Condition: Very Good. book has light wear to staple binding, light wear to edges and corners, light shelf wear/toning- mild smudge to bottom front cover, otherwise in solid clean shape.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. large print edition. 116 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.24 inches. In Stock.

Magazine. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, art, essays, poetry, resources, news, actions, very good magazine in stapled silver pictorial wraps.

Magazine. First Edition. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, art, essays, poetry, resources, news, actions, wraps shelfworn, touch of rust to staples, address label on rear wrap, else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). 1st Edition Thus. Matte purple pictorial wraps with minor edgewear and uneven sunning. Binding sound, spine not creased, text clean. Prev owner name and blindstamp to two early pages. No stickers. Not ex-library. 79 pp.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.