The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990


The Color of the Heart gives an eyewitness account of the controversies of the last three decades over feminist, political, and literary issues as only a poet and political activist totally engaged in the events could perceive and write about them—highlighting sexuality, gay liberation, psychoanalysis, and the impact of deconstruction on both politics and art.
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The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990


The Color of the Heart gives an eyewitness account of the controversies of the last three decades over feminist, political, and literary issues as only a poet and political activist totally engaged in the events could perceive and write about them—highlighting sexuality, gay liberation, psychoanalysis, and the impact of deconstruction on both politics and art.
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The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990

The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990

by Susan Sherman
The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990

The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990

by Susan Sherman

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The Color of the Heart gives an eyewitness account of the controversies of the last three decades over feminist, political, and literary issues as only a poet and political activist totally engaged in the events could perceive and write about them—highlighting sexuality, gay liberation, psychoanalysis, and the impact of deconstruction on both politics and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780915306909
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 07/01/1995
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author



Poet, playwright, and founding editor of IKON magazine, SUSAN SHERMAN has published seven collections of poetry, a translation (Shango de Ima, Doubleday), The Color of the Heart (Curbstone Press), and a memoir, America's Child. Sherman was the recipient of a NYFA fellowship in Creative Nonfiction Literature, a Puffin Foundation Grant, and a residency at Blue Mountain Center.

Table of Contents


Introduction by Margaret Randall

Color of the Heart
Home
The Fourth Wall
Morning Poem
Holding Together
Clippings
Red

Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua
Introduction
First and Last Poems
Reminiscences
Cuba
Letter from Havana
Feminism & the Nicaraguan Revolution
From Nicaragua a Gift

Divisions
The Case of Jane Alpert
"Down the Rabbit Hole" (In Reply to Barbara Deming)
Woman as Creator as Political Being
     Teacher Student as Woman: Sagaris & Process

Sexuality & Idenity
Love Poem for a Capricorn
A Poem
As When Things Fit
Day Dream
Horizon
A Fare/well Present
Duration
Women, Identity, Sexuality: A Re-examination
Areas of Silence

The Counterfeit Revolution: McLuhan, Derrida, Lacan
The Tyranny of Form
The ABC of Madness: The Legacy of Derrida
The Obscure Subject of Desire: The Despair of Jacques Lacan

Creativity & Change
Introduction
Freeing the Balance
Definitions
Barcelona Journal
Another Day
The Death of a Friend
Beginnings
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