The Lesbian Body J.H. Prynne Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy

'All looking for the emergence of a major poet must buy it'

This new selection supplements his original Selected Poems published by Carcanet in 1998

the body assumes many forms as love produces many states: attraction and repulsion

'“I wanna ____ all my friends at once”: how would you complete the lyric Arthur Russell wrote for “Go Bang”

The Lesbian Body J.H. Prynne Pierre ReverdyMonique Wittig In this genre and gender breaking work of theory fiction, legendary writer and cofounder of the 1970s French feminist movement Monique Wittig celebrates the bodylesbian, literary and defiantly politicaland challenges the order of heterosexuality in literature. First published in French in 1973, The Lesbian Body mines the relationship between a lover and a belovedalso a writer and a textto explore the ideological and historical