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Country United States Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 978-0930436087 Page count 296 Editors Joan Larkin, Elly Bulkin | 4.3/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 296 Originally published 1981 Genre Lesbian fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology is a 1981 poetry anthology edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin. The book was positively reviewed and has been considered the "breakthrough volume" for lesbian poetry.
Contents
Summary
The book contains 145 poems by 64 writers. Authors represented include Adrienne Rich, Michelle Cliff, and Audre Lorde.
Reception
Lesbian Poetry was reviewed by Susan Belew in the New York Native, and Robyn Fizz in Sojourner: The Women's Forum. It received a positive review from Joy Parks in the gay magazine The Body Politic. Parks wrote that the book contained an "immense and varied collection of work ... forming what must be the largest collected body of lesbian writing to date", and credited its editors with "filling that large and empty space in lesbian poetry that has been both large and empty for far too long." Writing in 1995, Simon LeVay and Elisabeth Nonas described the book as, "The breakthrough volume for lesbian poetry that reflected early lesbian-feminist concerns with multiculturalism and issues of radical revision of society (race, class, gender roles, and age)".