New Lesbian Writing

an anthology

Plot

contents:
Each morning ; the Lesbian bears ; childhood secret: one / Martha Courtot --
Alba: January, after surgery ; how it happens ; graffiti from the Gare Saint-Manqué / Marilyn Hacker --
They outlawed touch ; what it was like ; irons in the fire / Karen Brodine --
How my love for her is like a fugue ; coming into my own / M.S. Andrews --
After the school fire come dreams ; visitation rights ; elm / Esther Hawk --
delicate protections ; touch dancing / Ida VSW Red --
How the memories open out ; intolerance / Judy Schavrien --
after repeated attempts / Pamela Gray --
Nan / Susan Yarbrough --
Once upon a time there were two sisters ; Emily Dickinson is staying at home / Janine Canan --
Edna St. Vincent Millay ; work poem / Pat Kuras --
to the 'majority' from a 'minority' ; i have found / Doris Davenport --
Geography lesson / Sheila Davenport --
Vessel to continue the line ; beneath my hands / Audrey Ewart --
Paraibana / Jacqueline Lapidus --
Feminist fables ; Snow White and Rose Green ; the badge-wearing dyke and her two maiden aunts ; killer dyke ; the mouse and the lion ; the example ; Troglodyte / Suniti Namjoshi --
jazz dancin wif mama / LindaJean Brown --
Simple act / Beth Brant --
In the shadows singing she remembered / Paula Gunn Allen --
Two hanged women / Henry Handel Richardson --
Prince Charming / Renée Vivien --
Hattie / Janice Dabney --
Backrub / Caroline Overman --
Leaf peeking in Vermont / Canyon Sam --
Lesbian and writer: making the real visible / Jane Rule --
To my mother's vision / SDiane Bogus --
"As common as the best of bread": Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, and working class poetry / Pam Annas --
Casting a net / Elsa Gidlow --
Making of a deviant / Monika Kehoe --
Excerpts from The Medusa Head, Part II / Mary Meigs --
Excerpt from A Book of Travail-and of a humming under my feet / Barbara Deming.