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Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson in your present lives you are us telling the truth and living it too at last

Fran Winant “Gertrude and Emily” We Are All Lesbians

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Fran Winant, The Kiss, 1979

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GERTRUDE AND EMILY

"Gertrude I have your voice on a record and I listen to it when I do exercises in the morning feeling your rhythms on my skin Emily when Im lonely I think of your face with its quiet look of endurance youre my friends marking places in time where my consciousness existed before me you had to hide and so became obscure Gertrude your language was called hermetic as in 'hermetically sealed' you were a nonsense woman they tried to make you a clown your writing was called stream of consciousness so it couldnt make sense your consciousness couldnt be allowed to make sense when you talked about "tender buttons" were those breasts you meant when you asked "when do I see lightning" and answered "every night" were you talking about making love Emily who thought to look at you myth of a spinster wounded by emotions too deep for physical touch religious mystic mulling over god-bones snow flakes and death when you praised madness

and insisted "the sould selects its own society" described the people around you as a world "that never wrote to me" everyone thought poor woman what made her stay indoors so long and never come out if only we knew well now we do Gertrude at least you lived the life you wanted you would have felt better if you could have said it even at the expense of not creating that hard to follow style you needed to be able to write at all without quite lying Emily if only you could have lived it instead of having to bit your lip and count your losses whispering "my life closed twice before its close" I dont know if being gay is part of what youd want to be remembered for now but youre my friends in our past lives we were all Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson in your present lives you are us telling the truth and living it too at last"

Fran Winant

http://www.lesbianpoetryarchive.org/book/export/html/110

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Fran Winant, Dog With Secret Language

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Fran Winant, Looking at Women (New York: Violet Press, 1970).

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“What is a lesbian art? How would you recognize it? I’m not sure, but recent events have at least given a chance to confront the possibilities and to think about what an art based on sexual politics might look like.”

Kay Larson, “Lesbian Art: The Colonized Self,” The Village Voice (March 8, 1978)

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