Masks: With an Introduction by Piercy

by ROBSON RUTHANN

• ISBN13: 9780965457859
• ISBN10: 0965457850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

The stunning debut poetry collection of an award winning lesbian fiction writer.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Marge Piercy
Genealogy	3	(4)
PART ONE ALL THE REST IS MYTH
neolithic	7	(16)
the fifth month	23	(2)
the consort	25	(3)
the freeing of the hands	28	(4)
totem pole	32	(7)
PART TWO EVERY SELF PORTRAIT HAS BEEN SOMEONE ELSE
White and Black Photography	39	(7)
Kathe Kollwitz, Graphic Artist, Sketches A German Working-Class Woman	46	(2)
Regine's Rebuke to Kierkegaard	48	(2)
Mary Cassatt, After Destroying the Letters of Edgar Degas	50	(2)
The Animus of Diane Arbus, the Photographer	52	(1)
Edith Lewis Comforts Willa Cather as They Spend a Night Lost in the Mesa Verde Canyons of Colorado	53	(1)
Another Version of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	54	(1)
Isadora Duncan Swims in the Sea at Sunrise A Month After Her Children Drowned in the Seine	55	(1)
Romaine Brooks Names Herself Lapide	56	(2)
Self-Portrait of Frida Kahlo Without a Moustache	58	(5)
PART THREE LIVING MY LIFE AS IF
Witchcraft in the Nuclear Age: thirteen accounts	63	(7)
waves, night	70	(3)
a child's garden of verses	73	(2)
chain-links (in three voices)	75	(4)
not for my mother & father	79	(3)
each winter	82	(2)
departure	84	(2)
time, place, desire	86	(3)
the ledge	89	(3)
aesthetics	92	(1)
the last decade of patriarchy	93	(8)
PART FOUR THE DISTANCE BETWEEN OUR LOVE OF MASKS AND OUR LOVE
text	101	(6)
Nightshade	107	(9)
historicity	116	(13)
authenticity	129	(4)
Notes	133	(2)
About the Author	135