The Dirt She Ate by Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Dirt She Ate by Minnie Bruce Pratt

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.

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

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 York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Walking Back Up Depot Street, ForeWord Magazine's Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year.

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ISBN 13	9780822958260
ISBN 10	0822958260
Title	The Dirt She Ate
Author	Minnie Bruce Pratt
Series	Pitt Poetry Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published	2003-07-20
Number of pages	136
Prizes	Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2003
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