Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the southern United States as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest, these poems capture the rough edges of the world and force us to pay attention.

About the Author
Minnie Bruce Pratt, a member of the graduate faculty at the Union Institute and University, is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Crime Against Nature, chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets and a New Yo

Reviews
Original, startling,... [contains] an eroticism that is new and fearless. - New York Times Book Review; ""Hard-edged and provocative.... Never sentimental or historionic, Pratt's poems deal directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice."" - Publishers Weekly; ""Earnest, effortful... packed with thought, dense with craft."" - Women's Review of Books; ""Pratt's poems engage the tangled skeins of race, sexuality, and class in a context of historical struggle, demonstrating that these tangles and knots cannot be thinned out and separated.... I look forward to Pratt's next volume even as I laud her for this one."" - Lesbian Review of Books


Awards
Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2003.



Book Information
ISBN 9780822958260
Author Minnie Bruce Pratt
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press