{"product_id":"lady-of-the-moon-9780692388518","title":"Lady of the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Lowell's contemporaries, writing at a time when lesbians were invisible, described her as an old maid. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut as Lillian Faderman argues, Lowell wrote \"some of the most remarkable, barely encoded, lesbian poems since Sappho,\" while living in a Boston marriage with her muse, Ada Dwyer Russell. \u003ci\u003eLady of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e offers a combination of three voices on the Boston marriage of Amy Lowell and Ada Dwyer Russell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part contains a selection of Lowell's love poems to Ada. The second part contains a scholarly essay by Lillian Faderman that analyzes these poems in relation to Lowell's life. The third part contains a 27-sonnet sequence by Mary Meriam which draws from the first two parts and supports the story with imaginative details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this jewel of a volume, a great love is reanimated. Imagist Amy Lowell's love poems to actress Ada Russell, pioneering lesbian-feminist scholar Lillian Faderman's landmark essay on Lowell and Russell, and contemporary poet Mary Meriam's heartfelt sonnet sequence speaking to Russell in Lowell's voice, combine to create a remarkable erotic and poetic event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Lowell and Russell had a great creative partnership that made an indelible mark on literary and lesbian history. Lowell called her \"tense and urgent love\" for Russell an \"amethyst garden;\" today's readers will find gems of all colors in \u003ci\u003eLady of the Moon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eLisa L. Moore, \u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eSister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e (Lambda Literary Award, 2012), and Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat an erotic trinity! Amy Lowell's fiery poems about Ada Dwyer Russell; Lillian Faderman's illuminating essay about the couple and their \"Boston marriage\"; and Mary Meriam's contemporary poems in Lowell's lustful voice. Forget \"Amygism\" and \"Patterns\" with this brilliantly edited selection of works by and about Amy Lowell, Mary Meriam restores Lowell to her rightful status as a groundbreaking feminist poet.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eJulie Kane, \u003c\/b\u003e National Poetry Series winner and recent Louisiana Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Meriam writes \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e Amy Lowell and her beloved Ada. She imagines, in a variety of sonnet forms, the richness that Lowell removed from her own love poems. While making use of Lowell's language, the sonnets' insistence on the psychological fullness of the two women and their relationship unsettles the century-old sounds so that a sense of quaint mimicry falls quickly by the wayside. The organization of the volume's three parts is astute, though, finally, these sonnets cohere into a whole of their own.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eMarcia Karp, \u003c\/b\u003e poet and translator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Meriam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692388518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/27\/2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headmistress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40096915128435,"sku":"0692388516","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f2a8cd2d-8433-49c3-b56e-9596387bbeaf.jpg?v=1652969753","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/lady-of-the-moon-9780692388518","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}