Judith Arcana

Broschiertes Buch

Hello. This is Jane.

Beschreibung

"Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages." -Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival, Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers' Daughters, Every Mother's Son, and What if your mother are feminist classics. The stories in this new collection, rooted in her experience as a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive justice. By necessity, these stories reach from the past into the future, offering history and hope. "I'm profoundly grateful to Judith Arcana for writing these vital, electrifying stories. With abortion rights in America being stripped away-state by state, clinic by clinic-we need to hear from those who've fought this battle before. Arcana is a Jane; her work in the pre-Roe abortion underground has provide the seeds for her fiction, stories rooted in essential history to spark action in our terrifying present." -Leni Zumas, Author of Red Clocks

Autor

Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, Judith Arcana has lived in Oregon since 1995. She writes poems, stories, essays and books, publishing online and on paper. Her writing has, naturally, been influenced by the times and places of her life. A tenured high school teacher in the 1960's, Judith was fired, as many teachers were in those years in the United States, suddenly considered radical by the school's board. She believes her writing is, like that of every writer, seeded by the constant interplay of literary impulse and political context, growing through a life of reading and thinking. In this collection, the poems are rooted in her longtime concern with thoughtful motherhood - which began when she was a high school teacher, and her commitment to reproductive justice - which began when she became a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion service. Her experience as an elder, unavoidably growing more aware of ageism, sparked many of the poems in Announcements from the Planetarium, published by Flowstone in 2017. Simultaneously, the ferociously rising American antipathy to reproductive healthcare fostered her work in Hello. This is Jane., a fiction collection published by Left Fork in 2020. Visit juditharcana.com for info.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Left Fork
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9781945824340
• ISBN-10: 1945824344
• Artikelnr.: 57581836