She has served as faculty for developing a LGBTQ program at Syracuse University, where she held the position of Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Writing and Rhetoric. Minnie Bruce has co-edited “Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. She has also authored Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart and other autobiographical and political essays included in the volume Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 and S/HE (1995). Minnie Bruce’s poetry has been honored by the Academy of American Poets, New York Times, American Library Association and Fund for Free Expression. Minnie Bruce has published six books of poetry: The Sound of One Fork (1981), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1989), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), The Money Machine (2010) and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). She was a member of the editorial collective of Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South Emphasizing the Lesbian Vision for five years and co-authored Yours in Struggle: Three Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984). By chronicling her existence in poetry and prose, Pratt has explored themes reflecting the particularities of her life. In addition to receiving acclaim for her verse, Pratt is acknowledged as an essayist, activist, lesbian-feminist, and educator. Even as she asks, 'What's the use of poetry? Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain,' the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: 'Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us.' This lucid poetry is a testimony to the radical act of being present and offers this balm: that the generative power of love continues after death.Minnie Bruce Pratt is a poet-activist with commitments to organizing around intersecting women’s and gender issues, LGBT issues, anti-racist work, and anti-imperialist initiatives. Syracuse, New York Minnie Bruce Pratt is recognized as an eminent poet in the United States. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a way to go on in a world where injustice brings so much loss and death.Įach poem is a pocket lens 'to swivel out and magnify' the beauty in 'the little glints, insignificant' that catch her eye: 'The first flowers, smaller than this s.' She also chronicles the quiet rooms of 'pain and the body's memory,' bringing the reader carefully into moments that will be familiar to anyone who has suffered similar loss. This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. Once a blue moon, a love like this comes along.

S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt