1982
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Lesbian poetry. The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook "Listeners are completely captivated by her—captivated not only by lyrics so stunningly passionate and eloquent as to inspire the great Sappha herself—but also by the sense that in this fragile and exquisitely beautiful older woman reside the strength and potency of our shared values, spanning generational differences and linking each of us in a continuum."
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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.
