Eruptions of Inanna
Title | Eruptions of Inanna PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Grahn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-05-25 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781643620763 |
Path-breaking lesbian storyteller & scholar Judy Grahn explores poetry written over four thousand years ago on the life and loves of the great goddess Inanna
Another Mother Tongue
Title | Another Mother Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Grahn |
Publisher | Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Examines the life styles of gay men and women and discusses the role of gay culture in mainstream society.
OutWrite
Title | OutWrite PDF eBook |
Author | Julie R. Enszer |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2022-03-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978828055 |
Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary lions who had made their reputations before the gay liberation movement—like Edward Albee, John Rechy, and Samuel R. Delany—could mingle, network, and flirt with a new generation of emerging queer writers like Tony Kushner, Alison Bechdel, and Sarah Schulman. This collection gives readers a taste of this fabulous moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference, including both keynote addresses and panel presentations. These talks are drawn from a diverse array of contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, and many more. OutWrite offers readers a front-row seat to the passionate debates, nascent identity politics, and provocative ideas that helped animate queer intellectual and literary culture in the 1990s. Covering everything from racial representation to sexual politics, the still-relevant topics in these talks are sure to strike a chord with today’s readers.
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
Title | Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Enheduanna |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780292752429 |
Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.
Love Is a Burning Thing
Title | Love Is a Burning Thing PDF eBook |
Author | Nina St. Pierre |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0593473825 |
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart. Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment. Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain—reputed to be cosmic—in Northern California, Nina hoped life would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her. In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender—and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina’s writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
Inanna
Title | Inanna PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Wolkstein |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1983-08-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0060908548 |
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Title | Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Wolkstein |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Translation and retelling of the Inanna stories from the Sumerian.