Sapphic Songs
Eighteen to Eighty
Elsa Gidlow
‘Elsa Gidlow was a poet, who in 1923 published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States: On A Grey Thread. She promoted alternative spiritualities including Buddhism and Goddess Worship. In the 1940’s she founded a rural retreat center, The Druid Heights Artists Retreat, in Marin County, California. She lived there until her death in 1986. Other residents at Druid Heights have included well-known figures such as her close friend Alan Watts and feminist theorist Catherine MacKinnon. She was born ‘in Hull, Yorkshire, England on a dark afternoon on December 29, 1898.'[1] At a young age she sailed with her family to Montreal, Quebec. She moved to New York in 1920 at the age of 21. There she was employed by Frank Harris of Pearson’s, a magazine supportive of poets and unsympathetic to the war and England.[2] Later, in 1927, she moved to San Francisco, and continued to live, write and love in the San Francisco Bay Area for the rest of her life.’ — Wikipedia.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780960656844 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Copyright Date | 1982 |
| Publication Date | Jun-82 |
| Publisher | Naiad Press for Druid Heights Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 93 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Feminism – Poetry; Lesbians – Poetry |
| BookID | 11007 |
