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A Fire Is Burning It Is in Me
Michiyo Fukaya

A Fire Is Burning It Is in Me

The Life and Writings of Michiyo Fukaya

New Victoria Publishers (Oct 01, 1996)
9780934678780
| Paperback
181 pages | EN
$ 9.95
Dewey 811.54
LC Classification PS3556.U329 .Z67 1996
LC Control No. 96018721

Genre

  • Biography

Subject

  • Feminists - Biography. - United States
  • Feminists - Poetry. - United States
  • Japanese American Women - Biography
  • Japanese American Women - Poetry
  • Lesbians - Biography. - United States
  • Lesbians - Poetry. - United States
  • Women Poets, American - Biography

Plot

Includes works by M. Fukaya and commentaries by G.L. Shervington and others
Michiyo Fukaya, a Japanese-American lesbian poet and activist, was also a single mother of a mixed-race daughter, living on welfare, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual assault, and a woman of color in an all white environment. This collection portrays her life and that of a concerned lesbian community which was deeply affected...