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Journey by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Journey | …From the beginning, her poetry has expressed a deeply personal world where the lesbian collective consciousness sings and howls. Often Courtot’s po

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Tribe by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Tribe | …Tribe, published in 1977, offers eleven poems that integrate hard daily truths as they link emotions with the natural world. Like most of Courtot’s

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Tribes by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | Tribes | …Tribe, published in 1977, offers eleven poems that integrate hard daily truths as they link emotions with the natural world. Like most of Courtot’s

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The Woman Moving Through the Dark by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Woman Moving Through the Dark | Poetry by Courtot. Books are scarce, but mention is made in Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebo

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The Drowned Girl Now Rises by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Drowned Girl Now Rises | ‘This creative project, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, contains original poetry, pr

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Two Women, Two Shores by Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer

Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer | Two Women, Two Shores | The publication of Two Women, Two Shores in 1989 made explicit Archer’s continued connection to Ireland and broadened her themes by including poems se

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From a Mobile Home by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | From a Mobile Home | “In From a Mobile Home, Nuala Archer is migrant, immigrant, wanderer poet. In these poems, we move between Oklahoma, Ireland, Swilly and Sewanee, Muns

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Whale on the Line by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | Whale on the Line | The body is a central trope in Archer’s work. Fearlessly, she explores the sense of exile that results from physical trauma. For example, in “The Devi

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One Dyke’s Theater by Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers

Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers | One Dyke’s Theater | Terry Baum’s Dos Lesbos (1981) inspired the first anthology of lesbian plays in the history of the universe–Places, Please!–in 1985. The ten plays i

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Giacometti’s Dog by Robin Becker

Robin Becker | Giacometti’s Dog | Celebratory or eligiac, these poems record the author’s “two-headed journey” to root herself – geographically and emotionally – in the world.  Becker’