
- 82 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
On a Grey Thread
About this book
On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow – the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.
Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.
Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread, " Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decorating her drab existence with the colorful beads of her personal identity. Employing the double meaning of "gay, " offering a brief erotic "moan" on the precipice of enjambment, Gidlow stretches her stanza to its sinful conclusion, recalling Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elsa Gidlow's On a Grey Thread is a classic work of lesbian literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Grey Thread
- Youth
- Grain and Grapes
- Inner Chamber
- In Passing
- Epilogue
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher