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A review by kasper_au
Crime Against Nature: Poetry by Minnie Bruce Pratt
4.0
3-4 stars. Queer Women Book Club read
Crime Against Nature read as a story, chronicling Minnie Bruce Pratt's relationship with her family and as "a woman, a mother, a lesbian". As such, I find it hard to separate the poems here as I think they must be read sequentially. Even so, the two poems that stood out to me most were:
Justice, Come Down
Crime Against Nature
"But I didn't write this story until now when
they are too old for either law or father to seize
or prevent from hearing my words, or from watching
as I advance in the scandalous ancient way of women:
our assault on enemies, walking forward, skirts lifted,
to show the silent mouth, the terrible power, our secret."
Crime Against Nature read as a story, chronicling Minnie Bruce Pratt's relationship with her family and as "a woman, a mother, a lesbian". As such, I find it hard to separate the poems here as I think they must be read sequentially. Even so, the two poems that stood out to me most were:
Justice, Come Down
Crime Against Nature
"But I didn't write this story until now when
they are too old for either law or father to seize
or prevent from hearing my words, or from watching
as I advance in the scandalous ancient way of women:
our assault on enemies, walking forward, skirts lifted,
to show the silent mouth, the terrible power, our secret."