Dirt She Ate, The: Selected And New Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Original, startling,... [contains] an eroticism that is new and fearless. - New York Times Book Review; ""Hard-edged and provocative.... Never sentimental or historionic, Pratt's poems deal directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice."" - Publishers Weekly; ""Earnest, effortful... packed with thought, dense with craft."" - Women's Review of Books; ""Pratt's poems engage the tangled skeins of race, sexuality, and class in a context of historical struggle, demonstrating that these tangles and knots cannot be thinned out and separated.... I look forward to Pratt's next volume even as I laud her for this one."" - Lesbian Review of Books

Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the American south as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest, these poems capture the rough edges of the world and force us to pay attention. The Dirt She Ate features thirteen new poems as well as selections from Minnie Bruce Pratt's previous collections of poetry - The Sound of One Fork (1981); We Say We Love Each Other (1985); Crime Against Nature (1990), winner of the Lamont Poetry Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), ForeWord Magazine's Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.