{"product_id":"the-judy-grahn-reader-paperback","title":"The Judy Grahn Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudy Grahn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLisa Maria Hogeland\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled in one book for the first time, featuring both new and out of print pieces, the contents of \u003cem\u003eThe Judy Grahn Reader\u003c\/em\u003e span four decades of work by the prominent writer and activist. This volume contains writing from every phase of Judy Grahn's career, including poems from all of her major poetry collections, such as \"The Common Woman,\" \"A Woman is Talking to Death,\" and the previously unpublished \"Mental\"; a number of her groundbreaking essays (\"Writing from a House of Women\" and the newly revised \"Ground Zero: The Rise of Lesbian Feminism,\" among others); as well as selected fiction and the full-length play The Queen of Swords. As Judy Grahn's writing continues to be relevant in today's social, political and cultural climate, this comprehensive volume gathers the varying strands of her writing and makes visible the tremendous scope of her ongoing contribution as a feminist thinker, activist, and literary artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Judy Grahn is the direct inheritor of that passion for life in the woman poet, that instinct for true power, not domination, which poets like Barrett Browning, Dickinson, H.D., were asserting in their own very different ways and voices.\u003c\/em\u003e -- Adrienne Rich, from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e People always ask me about my favorite musicians but no one ever asks about my favorite poets. When I was nineteen I discovered the poetry of Judy Grahn, and I was so moved by \"A Woman Is Talking to Death\", it's still one of my favorite poems ever, in the world.\u003c\/em\u003e -- Ani DiFranco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Judy Grahn has done more to create a women's literature than any other writer in the past half century\u003c\/em\u003e. -- Ron Silliman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. She serves as executive core faculty and co-director of the Women's Spirituality Program at Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA. She also teaches Creative Inquiry and Creative Writing in the Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she earned her Ph.D. in Integral Studies with an emphasis in Women's Spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her work has won several awards, including an NEA Grant, American Book Review Award, two American Book Awards, American Library Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (in Lesbian Letters), a Founding Foremothers of Women's Spirituality Award, and an Independent Publisher Book Award. The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, established an award in her name: The Judy Grahn Award, recognizing the best non-fiction book of the year that resonates themes and issues affecting lesbian lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrahn's works include\u003cem\u003e Edward the Dyke and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), \u003cem\u003eShe Who\u003c\/em\u003e (1972), and \u003cem\u003eA Woman is Talking to Death\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003e love belongs to those who do the feeling\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), Another Mother Tongue; Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984);\u003cem\u003e Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), and \u003cem\u003eHanging On Our Own Bones\u003c\/em\u003e (2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336875491577,"sku":"9781879960800","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/A_H7_I7dy69781879960800.webp?v=1769671450","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-judy-grahn-reader-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}