Magnified

Magnified - Paperback

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Magnified - Paperback

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Book Overview

by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Author)

Once in a blue moon, a love like this comes along

This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. 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. Each 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. 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.

Oh Death

Someone sang, Oh death! Oh death! Won't you
pass me over for another day?
Someone said, I

dreamed of you last night. I dreamed you
were telling me your whole life story.


Whole. Whorled. Welkin, winkle, wrinkle.
The loop of time holds us all together.

The pile of laundry on the bed. You
folding socks one inside the other. We
have had this day, and now this night.

The clothes are put away, and from the bed we see
the moon folding light into darkness, not death.

Author Biography

MINNIE BRUCE PRATT (Syracuse, NY), an LGBTQ writer and activist originally from Alabama, is the author of nine books of poetry, creative nonfiction and political theory. She is a Managing Editor of Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper.

Number of Pages: 88
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 02, 2021
ISBN9780819580061
Author Minnie Bruce Pratt
PublisherWesleyan University Press
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages88
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Minnie Bruce Pratt

Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-2023) was an internationally-acclaimed anti-racist, anti- imperialist lesbian writer, poet, scholar, and activist from Alabama. She is the author of multiple poetry collections including Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, The Dirt She Ate, Inside the Money Machine and most recently, Magnified (2021) a collection of love poems dedicated to her partner and spouse of over 22 years, trans activist-theorist, Leslie Feinberg. Her website, now maintained by her sons, is https: //minniebrucepratt.net.

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