Selections from Blood, bread, and roses
By: Judy Grahn ; Iemanjá Brown & Iris Cushing, editors
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 6, number 3, Spring 2016; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- ser. 6, no. 3
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780988894594
Subjects: Menstruation; Cross-cultural studies; Criticism and interpretation; Social aspects
Work titles: Blood, bread, and roses
Description: "While Judy Grahn has been an essential figure in many movements and communities for over forty years—as a poet, lesbian/feminist activist, and major thinker about queer and women’s history and spirituality—her work has not always been read or recognized across these spheres. We present selections from one of her major out-of-print books, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, to bring this important work to a range of new readers. Accompanied by an interview conducted by co-editors Iemanjá Brown and Iris Marble Cushing, Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread, and Roses brings this important work of a poet’s scholarship back into the conversation."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/04/2016).
Notes: Excerpts from Judy Grahn's Blood, bread, and roses: how menstruation created the world, and selections from an interview of Judy Grahn by Iemanjá Brown and Iris Cushing, December 4, 2015.

"This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts and the the Leslie Scalapino--O Books Fund."--title page verso.

"Judy Grahn (1940- ) was born in Chicago and raised in New Mexico where she lived until joining the US Air Force in 1960. Discharged “less than honorably” the following year because of her sexual orientation, Grahn moved to Washington D.C. where she discovered Civil Rights social activism and attended Howard University. A pioneer in the creation of women’s spaces and institutions, Grahn has been publishing groundbreaking poetry, plays, prose, essays, and scholarly studies since the mid-1960s. Some of her many publications include Edward the Dyke (1971), A Woman is Talking to Death (1974), The Work of a Common Woman:The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn 1964-1977 (1978), love belongs to those who do the feeling: New & Selected Poems (2008), The Judy Grahn Reader (2009) and the memoir A Simple Revolution (2012). She lives with her wife, Kris Brandenburger, in California."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/04/2016).

As issued, saddle-stitched in dark teal paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Interview with Judy Grahn (December 4, 2015, Palo Alto, California)  -- Judy Grahn, Iemanjá Brown, Iris Cushing; title: Selections from Blood, bread, and roses: how menstruation created the world  -- Judy Grahn; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Biographical notes.