A Woman Is Talking to Death $3.00 This poem will be downloaded to your computer
This is Judy's powerful award winning classic nine-part poem, praised by Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Adrienne Rich, Cherrie Moraga, Vince Santos, Amitai F. Avi-ram, Maximillion, Ani DiFranco and many others.
June Jordan wrote to Judy about the poem: "Dear Great American Poet, I wish you could see how your words save life. In the classroom, how the students' eyes light up as they understand what you are saying."
Some people think this poem pre-cogged the film Crash by 32 years.
Lesbein’ $3.00 These poems will be downloaded to your computer
From tender to tough, romantic to erotic to profound, these seven poems touch into meanings in love between women, or love between any two women-appreciating lesbeings. March through June 2007, “love rode 1500 miles” took first place in the Midwest division, second place overall in a fun poetry contest for high school students, details posted on Cup O’ Poetry site.In contrast, “Descent to the Butch of the Realm,” from Grahn’s long poem The Queen of Swords, seems to shake readers to some core of their bein’. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
Devotions $3.00 These poems will be downloaded to your computer Passionate love for the earth and Her beings and for the Great Mystery within us all, in these seven poems:
They say she is veiled
To the Mother of All Bowls
may we embrace
The land that I grew upon is a rock
Forest, forest
Black Roses Make the Sky More Sacred
Funeral Plainsong
Two New Nine Part Poems
Modeled after “A Woman Is Talking to Death,” Grahn’s nine part poems are transformational lamentations in the most powerful sense—critiques of what mindlessly suffers existence silently, and suggestion of different directions.
Mental $3.00 This poem will be downloaded to your computer
Just what is “sane” anyhow?Written from the perspective of the child of a schizophrenic parent, this nine-part poem will seem autobiographical, but look again. You may find something very familiar, looking back at you from the cusp of sanity/insanity.
Women are tired of the ways men bleed $3.00
This poem will be downloaded to your computer
Though war and domestic violence are heavy subjects, it is also true that upon hearing the chanted section on blood, an entire long pew full of thirteen year old girls stood up and cheered spontaneously.Grahn insists there is a road to the other side of the dilemma of destructive blood rituals. Women’s Spirituality foremother Elinor Gadon wrote, “I can hear your voice through and through, your warm-hearted, generous nature, so wise and benevolent. No judging naming god.Thank you dear one for your prescience.”
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