1985
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Autobiography of a Poet-Warrior. Many know eighty-seven year-old Elsa Gidlow as an honored feminist poet, a philosophical anarchist and Taoist bon vivant. This is her radical and loving story. The triumph over long poverty, lack of education, and family tragedy, her joy as a word weaver and as an irrepressible free spirit, free heart.
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Author
Elsa Gidlow
Author · 5 books
Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a poet, who in 1923 published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, On a Grey Thread. She promoted alternative spiritualities including Buddhism and Goddess Worship. In the 1940s she founded a rural retreat center, the Druid Heights Artists Retreat, in Marin County, California. She lived there until her death in 1986. Other residents at Druid Heights have included well-known figures such as her close friend Alan Watts and feminist theorist Catharine MacKinnon.
