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Swimming in Gilead
Paperback
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Yellow Arrow Publishing
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Swimming in Gilead by Cassie Premo Steele takes us through the journey of a woman who, empowered to express herself through the feminist spirit of a writing group, explores what it means to be a woman and an ally in an era of uncertainty. In the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was raging, Cassie joined a group of six women-three from Canada and three from the United States, four white and two women of color, and five lesbians and one straight-to sit and write remotely once a week. They called themselves the Sisters of Gilead, strangers who came together during the loneliness and terror of the pandemic and in the process, helped each other survive. And they helped each other write.
Cassie is a lesbian ecofeminist poet and novelist who lives in South Carolina with her wife. Her collection of poetry is her call to action, an invitation to each of us to examine what is within, and how, with the support of feminist advocates as friends, we can make something beautiful out of our torn parts. The poems within Swimming in Gilead were written under the loving kindness and acceptance of the Sisters of Gilead. By opening into vulnerability, the poems show readers how to swim in Gilead with hope and perseverance even as our rights as women are being ripped away.
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