Enszer has carefully edited these so we feel the major highs and lows of their lives, as well as know who all of the people mentioned in the letters are in relation to Parker and Lorde. As in both of their work, these letters interweave the importance of continually seeking creative and erotic satisfaction amidst the struggles of finding the time to write, publish, reach out to editors, engage in organizing, and for both of them too, caring for children. Reading these provides a texture to the working and loving lives of both Parker and Lorde, as well as the unease of idol-worship in mentor relationships that Pat is specifically trying to avoid. These gorgeous letters from two giants of poetry are edited to balance the nuts-and-bolts of everyday life with intimate and profound revelations about living and working as Black feminist lesbians in the wider world. She is the editor of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal, and a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx. Milk & Honey was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.

She is editor of Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2011). Her book manuscript, A Fine Bind: Lesbian-Feminist Publishing from 1969 through 2009, tells stories a dozen lesbian-feminist publishers to consider the meaning of the theoretical and political formations of lesbian-feminism, separatism, and cultural feminism.Įnszer is the author of two collections of poetry, Sisterhood (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2010). By examining lesbian print culture with the tools of history and literary studies, she reconsider histories of the Women’s Liberation Movement and gay liberation. feminist and lesbian histories, literatures, and cultures. history and literature with particular attention to twentieth century U.S. Her scholarship is at the intersection of U.S.

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