A masterwork of twentieth-century lesbian-feminist literature, Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature is a deeply personal sequence of narrative poems exploring the devastating intersections of motherhood, state oppression, and sexual identity. The collection takes its title directly from the language used in the anti-sodomy statutes of the era, under which Pratt was stripped of the legal custody of her young sons simply for being an open lesbian. In visceral, precise, and emotionally raw language, Pratt charts her journey through the wreckage of her marriage, the agonizing grief and shame of losing her children, and her eventual reclamation of self-worth and sexual joy within the broader queer liberation movement. It stands as an enduring classic of political and erotic lesbian verse.
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| Title: Crime Against Nature |
| Author: Minnie Bruce Pratt |
| ISBN: 9781940000000 |
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| Genre: Poetry; Award Winner |
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| Publication Date: 2013 |
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| Publisher: A Midsummer Night’s Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 144 |
| Rating: Good |
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| Book_ID: 107317 |