love belongs to those who do the feeling de Judy Grahn

love belongs to those who do the feeling

Judy Grahn

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2008

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love belongs to those who do the feeling--an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of Swords, to new poems written between 1997 and 2008. Judy's poetry is rangy and provocative. It has been written at the heart of so many of the important social movements of the last forty years that the proper word is foundational--Judy Grahn's poetry is foundational to the spirit of movement. People consistently report that Judy's poetry is also uplifting--an unexpected side effect of work that is aimed at the mind as well as the heart. Judy continues to insist that love goes beyond romance, to community, and that community goes beyond the everyday world, to the connective worlds of earth and spirit.

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I am thrilled that Judy Grahn's amazing poetry will once again become available to a new generation. She is a phenomenon--a fierce poet of witness and action, a visionary, with a tough and compassionate heart and a piercing intelligence, rooted in a spirituality that locates the sacred in the belly of the profane. And what a writer! Look at her wit, her compression, her ear for rhythms and sounds, her instinct for dialogic tension, her ability to compose large structures held together as in music by expected and unexpected recurrences, her common woman's twentieth century vocabulary along with ancient and archaic uses of language: naming as ritual, cursing, keening, spell- casting. Anyone who reads Grahn will be changed for life. Repeat: for life.
--Alicia Ostriker

Judy Grahn takes her title from a poem commemorating the death of her first lover, but love belongs to those who do the feeling is far from elegiac. It bursts with life energy. Grahn writes of the erotic as “a force between artists…an enfusion of energy fueling the desire for change.” “Belly dancers,” she adds, “express love and spiritual community this way as well.” Another brilliant California poet, Jack Spicer, remarked that poems must “echo and reecho against each other”: “they cannot live alone any more than we can.” It is such echoing and reechoing that we find in this selected poems. “The will to change”—Charles Olson’s phrase—animates everything. Grahn’s mentor Gertrude Stein insisted that the poet had to work “in the excitingness of pure being”; she must “get back that intensity into the language.” Such intensity is always present in the work of this “common woman” who commonly achieves the miracle of accessibility without simplification. In our warmongering culture, the figure of the “warrior” is put forth by both men and women as the emblem of spiritual activity. (The “woman warrior.”) No poems are more “active” than Judy Grahn’s, but cultural change is already present in her choice of metaphor: she chooses the dancer, not the warrior. The poems in love belongs to those who do the feeling might be thought of as the longing for community, but if you read them carefully you will see that in fact they are themselves community. “They cannot live alone any more than we can.”
--Jack Foley

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Judy Grahn is a poet, writer, and social theorist. She currently serves as Research Faculty for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. She is former director of Women’s Spirituality MA and Creative Inquiry MFA programs at New College of California. Her books include love belongs to those who do the feeling (Red Hen Press, 2008), Blood, Bread, and Roses (Beacon Press, 1994), and Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (The Women’s Press Collective, 1971).

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Dedication:
To the Mother of All Bowls (2004)
selections from Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (1966-1970)
Asking for Ruthie
the harvest spider
the centipede’s poem
in the place where
If you lose your lover
The Marilyn Monroe Poem
Vietnamese woman speaking to an American soldier
I’m not a girl
Elephant Poem
A History of Lesbianism
the big horse woman
The Common Woman Poems (1969)

I. Helen, at 9 am, at noon, at 5:15
II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
III. Nadine, resting on her neighbor’s stoop
IV. Carol in the park, chewing on straws
V. Detroit Annie, hitchhiking
VI. Margaret, seen through her picture window
VII. Vera, from my childhood
selections from She Who (1972-1974)
She Who
She Who continues
Sheep
parting on the left
She Who increases/what can be done
the enemies of She Who call her various names
She who bears it
the many minnows
bowl of blood
A Geology Lesson
The woman in three pieces—one
The woman in three pieces—two
The woman in three pieces—three
the most blonde woman in the world
Carol and her crescent wrench
I am the wall at the lip of the water
Foam on the rim of the glass
a funeral/ plainsong from a younger woman to an older woman
Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
the woman whose head is on fire
selections from Confrontations with the Devil in the Form of Love (1975)
what do I have if not my 2 hands
Love came along    and saved me saved me
you are what is female
Love is a space which is attracted
Love came along and saved me
Venus, ever since they knocked
Love, you wicked dog
Look at my hands
Love came along and saved
Venus, dear, where are your arms
Ah Love, you smell of petroleum
Love rode 1500 miles on a grey
This is what is so odd
The poverty of Love is when
Young Love
I only have one reason for living
After the boss took over:
Love said:
My name is Judith, meaning
selections from The Queen of Wands (1980-1982)
They say she is veiled
The land that I grew up on is a rock
A dream of Helen
The meanings in the pattern
Queen Helen
Paris and Helen
One for Helen
Helen’s lover
Old Helen
In the tower of the crone
Helen in Hollywood
The Inheritance
Frigga with Wuotan
Frigga with Hela
The Queen of Wands
The good weef is both
Knit the knot: a riddle
But I mean any kind of thief
Spider Webster’s declaration:
     He is singing the end of the world again
Helen your beauty: a chorus
Like a woman in childbirth wailing
Beauty, sleeping (Who shall wake us?)
Grand Grand Mother is returning
selections from The Queen of Swords (1986-1987)
Everyone wants Love to be his own
It isn’t easy being Nothing
Nature doesn’t give a damn
Crow Chorus with Helen
The sky is a sheet of crystal on a day like this
There is more to standing
Amazon chorus (As for what we do with horses)
Her shadow falls across me
I, Boudica
I am Ildreth remembering
A woman among motorcycles
Descent to the Butch of the Realm
Ever wish upon a star?
Thoughts are points of sound/light
The mother of trees is dirt
The Ice Queen
I fell through a hole/in the eye of death
We’ll laugh it off to burrow (in a lighter cloth of time)
Is this what dying is really like?
Dancing in Place
New Poems (1987-2006)
The Vampires of Empire (from women are tired of the ways men bleed)
Forest, forest
Gratitude to you for the food of our abundance
Think what a butterfly (from “Mental”)
Talkers in a Dream Doorway
Margedda’s hair (from Mundane’s World)
Inside Passage
Goddess of wind
Kira and Pete in the ninth month
News
Mothers, fathers, clasp the children (from women are tired of the ways men bleed)
Gloria, child of Yemanya
When you walk down this road
lunarchy
may we embrace

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