A Woman Is Talking To Death: Judy Grahn and The Feminist Poetry Movement

Abstract

Il feminist poetry movement è una corrente della poesia americana degli anni Settanta che, come altri movimenti quali quello dei Beat poets degli anni Cinquanta e quello dei poeti antimilitaristi degli anni Sessanta, realizza una combinazione di arte e politica. Lo straordinario poema A Woman Is Talking To Death della poeta femminista lesbica working-class Judy Grahn, pubblicato nel 1973 e accolto con entusiasmo nel contesto del movimento di liberazione delle donne e in innumerevoli reading di poesia, intreccia esperienza soggettiva e collettiva e denuncia l’intricato nesso di oppressioni sulla base del genere, della sessualità, della razza e della classe, molto prima che venisse coniato il termine “intersezionalità”.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-225

Parole chiave: feminist poetry, Grahn, lesbian feminism, women’s liberation movement, intersectionality.

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