Crime Against Nature (with Notes and Autographed): The Lamont Poetry Selection For 1989

The Story

"Designated as the prestigious 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and winner of the 1991 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, Pratt's Crime Against Nature is a stunning achievement. This beautifully crafted sequence of poems takes its title from language in the statute under which the author could have been prosecuted as a lesbian if she had sought legal custody of her children. These are poems of despair, self-doubt, sexual bliss, sexual shame, exhilaration, rage, hope, victory. In Crime Against Nature, Pratt breathes new life into the words lesbian, poet, mother. Without contradiction or self-denial, she holds herself, her loves, and her children in a world of passion, of power being realized, of wholeness."--AUTHOR WEBSITE.

A paperback edition from 1990 of Crime Against Nature (with Notes and Autographed) by Minnie Bruce Pratt. It runs to 128 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Poetry & Drama. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.