Judy Grahn Books

Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic love and justice to reimagine the contemporary world.

"Lesbian culture may be seen as 'marginal' by heterosexual culture and heterosexual definition. 'Marginal' is a word that implies, like the story of Columbus, that there is one world and it is flat. Fortunately at the heart of these [marginal] groups, one finds an entirely different schema, a map virtually unrelated to the 'flat world' folks. Surely, Lesbian culture is central to Lesbians. Moreover, the work that comes from Lesbian culture, the special perspective, can be central to society as a whole." --from the IntroductionHere, in a poetic examination is the "map" of a round world, of the special perspective of: SapphoEmily DickinsonAmy LowellH.D.Gertrude SteinAdrienne RichPaula Gunn AllenAudre LordeOlga Broumasand Judy Grahn

"Blood, Bread, and Roses" reclaims women's myths and stories, chronicling the ways in which women's actions and the teaching of myth have interacted over the millenia. Grahn argues that culture has been a weaving between the genders, a sharing of wisdom derived from menstruation. Her rich interpretations of ancient menstrual rites give us a new and hopeful story of culture's beginnings based on the integration of body, mind, and spirit found in women's traditions. "Blood, Bread, and Roses" offers all of us a way back to understanding the true meaning of women's menstraul power.Foreword by Charlene Spretnak"[Grahn's] intriguing excursion through folklore, myth, religion, anthropology and history bespeaks a feminist conviction that male origin stories must be balanced by a recognition of women's central role in shaping civilization."-Publishers Weekly

Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a personal study conveyed in thought- provoking nonfiction and creative nonfiction stories of psychic and empathic reach-across between unlikely beings: human and insect, human and lizard, human and coyote, and of course many cats.