Judy Grahn

This book is organized into three sections, each beginning with an essay that clarifies the following selections, usually in excerpted form, from Stein's poetry, fiction, and drama. The essays act as a primer for the reader who is uneasy about approaching the often confounding writings of Stein. Poet/novelist Grahn tends to be personal and intuitive rather than scholarly in her remarks, which are not particularly theoretical but do serve as a commentary on the texts. Because the concepts and vocabulary are simplistic at times, the essays provide a good introduction for the novice reader of Stein but would probably prove too elementary for the initiated.

"While Judy Grahn has been an essential figure in many movements and communities for over forty years—as a poet, lesbian/feminist activist, and major thinker about queer and women’s history and spirituality—her work has not always been read or recognized across these spheres. We present selections from one of her major out-of-print books, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, to bring this important work to a range of new readers. Accompanied by an interview conducted by co-editors Iemanjá Brown and Iris Marble Cushing, Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread, and Roses brings this important work of a poet’s scholarship back into the conversation."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/04/2016).

In this view of gay culture and its role in society, the author weaves history with myth, tribal traditions with the occult, and interviews with personal experience to unfold the rich pattern of gay life that has existed from ancient times to the present.

love belongs to those who do the feeling―an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of Swords, to new poems written between 1997 and 2008. Judy's poetry is rangy and provocative. It has been written at the heart of so many of the important social movements of the last forty years that the proper word is foundational―Judy Grahn's poetry is foundational to the spirit of movement. People consistently report that Judy's poetry is also uplifting―an unexpected side effect of work that is aimed at the mind as well as the heart. Judy continues to insist that love goes beyond romance, to community, and that community goes beyond the everyday world, to the connective worlds of earth and spirit.

The story of a woman's journeys and hardships, growing up in a rural life of clans. Set in the time of magic and healing, this is a tale of relationships of all kinds, and the outcomes of many life decisions.

364 pages ; 25 cm