Judith Arcana

Broschiertes Buch

What if your mother

Beschreibung

¿"It's a passionate rush of language, hope in a hard time, truth in the middle of lies. This poetry sparks and burns with the hidden language and stories of women" -Minnie Bruce Pratt Judith Arcana, a reproductive rights activist formerly involved in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, imbues her poetry, fiction and essays with the same ferocity, humor and passion that informs her activism. As Grace Paley wrote, "What I love about this important book is how the work Judith began in Chicago years ago has deepened in poetry and prose with love for the lives of women." In light of the leaked 2022 decision regarding Roe, it's more important than ever that we examine and promote reproductive rights and justice. Judith has been a tireless fighter on this front for decades. Hello. This is Jane. was published on the 48th anniversary of her 1972 arrest as one of the "Abortion 7," which directly inspired the pieces in the collection. Hard to believe that 50 years later, we're now in danger of losing the progress she and so many others fought so hard for. Previously Judith tackled the topics in poetry, with What if your mother, first released in 2005. Note that this 2nd edition of the book includes an updated preface. "The title poem ... should be made into a poster and pinned up on the wall in every clinic in the United States." -Peter Bours, MD, longtime abortion provider

Autor

Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, Judith Arcana has lived in Oregon since 1995. She writes poems, stories, essays and books, publishing online and on paper. Her writing has, naturally, been influenced by the times and places of her life. A tenured high school teacher in the 1960's, Judith was fired, as many teachers were in those years in the United States, suddenly considered radical by the school's board. She believes her writing is, like that of every writer, seeded by the constant interplay of literary impulse and political context, growing through a life of reading and thinking. In this collection, the poems are rooted in her longtime concern with thoughtful motherhood - which began when she was a high school teacher, and her commitment to reproductive justice - which began when she became a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion service. Her experience as an elder, unavoidably growing more aware of ageism, sparked many of the poems in Announcements from the Planetarium, published by Flowstone in 2017. Simultaneously, the ferociously rising American antipathy to reproductive healthcare fostered her work in Hello. This is Jane., a fiction collection published by Left Fork in 2020. Visit juditharcana.com for info.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flowstone Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781945824579
• ISBN-10: 1945824573
• Artikelnr.: 64132882