We Heal from Memory: Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312233426)

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa, We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence - child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, the poetry of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldúa allows us to witness and to heal from such disparate traumatic events.

Author: C. Steele
ISBN-10: 0312233426
ISBN-13: 9780312233426
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2001
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2001 pg. 1631