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Judy Grahn (1940 - )
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Mother Tongue : Gay Words, Gay Worlds by
Judy Grahn
Judy Grahn has deftly
researched the subject of homosexual culture, both lesbian and
gay. She demystifies the sources of popularly excepted
"gay" language and mores'. She also clearly defines the
original place of the gay male and the lesbian womin in herstory
as well as history. A thoroughly good read and an educational
groundwork for anyone curious-for any reason-about homosexual
culture. An impressive piece of work that I highly recommend! --
Anonymous Review
Fragments
of Desire: Sapphic Fictions in Works by H.D., Judy Grahn, and
Monique Wittig by
Johanna Dehler Tracing the influence of
Sappho's fragmented literary legacy on three 20th-century women
writers - H.D., Judy Grahn, and Monique Wittig - this book
discusses 'Sapphic fiction' as a genre that emerged throughout the
20th century. H.D., Grahn, and Wittig represent three movements
that have shaped the approach to the sexual subject and her
desires: modernism, cultural feminism, and poststructuralism
respectively. H.D. responds to Sappho with an imagistic style that
resembles Sappho's terse and clipped lines. Grahn recreates the
idea of Lesbos as a model for a women-centered society. Wittig,
writing from a poststructuralist background, alludes to Sappho in
her fierce critique of myth and language. This study draws on
recent debates about the history of sexuality, the body, and the
construction of the self, and is meant as a contribution to the
ongoing debate on how gender is constructed in modernist and
postmodernist discourse.
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From Modern
American Poetry, prepared and compiled by Cary Nelson
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From GayGate.com
Excerpt:
Judy Rae Grahn was born in 1940 in Chicago. Her
father was a cook, and her mother a photographer's assistant. She
spent much of her childhood in what she describes as "an
economically poor and spiritually depressed late 1950's New Mexico
desert town near the hellish border of West Texas. There, it
seemed to me, virtually everything was prohibited except low-level
wage slavery and mandatory, joyless marriage." At 18
she" eloped" to be with Yvonne, a student at a small
nearby college who first introduced her to the secret Gay culture
whose history she would later trace. She joined the Air Force, but
at the age of 21 was given what she calls "a
less-than-honorable" discharge for being a lesbian. Her
letters and notes were seized and used against her friends in the
service, and her parents notified of her "crime." When
she went to a Washington D.C. library to read about homosexuals
and lesbians in an effort to investigate who she might be, the
librarians told her such books were locked away, available only to
professors, doctors, psychiatrists and lawyers for the criminally
insane...
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From Serpentina
Women
Excerpt:
I am uncomfortable trying to define myself. We
can change a society, era or even a world by altering its rhythms,
stories and imagery. Poetry is the vehicle I love most, with its
two arms philosophy and performing arts. I've been writing it
since I was ten—or rather, it has been writing me….
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Established in 1997, the Randy Shilts-Judy Grahn
Awards are meant to honor books with significant influence upon
lesbians and gay men. "Lesbian nonfiction" is defined as
nonfiction affecting lesbian lives. The book may be by a lesbian,
for example, or about a lesbian or lesbian culture, or both. The
same is true of gay male nonfiction.
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