The Sex of Art

The Sex of Art was Frances Presley's first full collection, published by North and South in 1987. Perhaps a little overdue by that time, the book nevertheless summed up the author's first dozen years of writing, and is a specific record of that time. A young woman begins with an American dream and the forms it takes in American writing. In this book she arrives finally in Ithaca, speaking in her own voice, and recognising the source of her dream in childhood travels to Holland, her mother's...