![]() ![]() Though we often consider natural landscapes such to be stable, ecology, geology, and climate are always in flux. Several of the poems in Crime Against Nature are set at rivers-highlighting liminality of ecology, place, and sexuality-including “No Place,” which you can watch Pratt read at the Little Cahaba river here. ![]() The poems collected here question the binary between “natural” and “unnatural” the speaker is in constant dialogue with the very idea of “nature”: not only contesting the boundary between “lesbian” and “mother” but also between water and land, human and more-than-human. ![]() The ensuing loss of her parental rights after coming out and divorcing her husband is the central narrative to her Lamont award-winning collection Crime Against Nature, making Pratt the first lesbian feminist poet to receive such mainstream recognition for her work and indicating a larger cultural shift regarding queerness. Poet Minnie Bruce Pratt was born and raised in the South, and as a young woman, she put aside her own writing to raise two sons before coming out as a lesbian. ![]()
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