I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch … - Minnie Bruce Pratt
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch …
- Minnie Bruce Pratt
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because … - Minnie Bruce Pratt
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because …
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. - Minnie Bruce Pratt
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.
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