Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn 's critical study The Highest Apple placed Sappho at the head of a lesbian poetic tradition. So too did other late-twentieth-century publications.

Since the late 1890s Sappho has been claimed by many lesbian writers, including Michael Field , H. D. , and Judy Grahn , not only as a writing role model but as a crucial forerunner...

But in accordance with her insistence on the close links between personal, creative, and social expression, coming out as a lesbian was also, for AR , a profoundly political statement. She later wrote of the...

In this book AR continues to reconstruct a feminist literary tradition through such essays as Vesuvius at Home: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Tensions of Anne Bradstreet, Woman Observing, Preserving, Conspiring, Surviving...