From Midsummer Night's Press, four fascinating books


Item Number: 156

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $40

Online Close: Nov 16, 2014 11:00 PM EST

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Description

Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry edited by Julie R. Enszer


This Is What Happened in Our Other Life by Achy Obejas


Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer


and 

Fairy Tales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel


A Midsummer Night?s Press was founded in New Haven, CT in 1991. Hand-printing on a letterpress, it published broadsides of poems by Nancy Willard, Joe Haldeman, and Jane Yolen, among others, in signed, limited editions of 126 copies, numbered 1-100 and lettered A-Z. One of the broadsides??Will? by Jane Yolen?won a Rhysling Award.  In 1993, the publisher moved to New York and the press went on hiatus until 2007, when it began publishing perfect-bound, commercially-printed volumes. The press currently publishes new editions under three imprints:


 


Fabula Rasa: Devoted to works inspired by mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. The first title from this imprint is Fairy Tales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel.


 


Body Language: Devoted to texts exploring questions of gender and sexual identity. The first title from this imprint will beThis Is what Happened in Our Other Life, the first collection of poems by Lambda Literary Award-winner Achy Obejas, author of Days of Awe (Ballantine), Memory Mambo (Cleis), and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?(Cleis).


 


Sapphic Classics: Published in partnership with Sinister Wisdom, this series features germinal works of lesbian poetry in new editions. Started in 2013, titles in this series include Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt andLiving as a Lesbian by Cheryl Clarke.


 

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