Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa,We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence–child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women’s sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, the poetry of Sexton, Lord… More >>
We Heal From Memory: Sexton, Lorde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness
Anyone who is interested in women’s studies and/or poetry should get this book. Steele looks at the writers’ bodies of work as methods of survival in the face of trauma, institutionalized racism and misogyny that permeates our culture.
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