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Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. Grahn’s honors include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Book Review Award, an American Book Award, an American Library Award, and a Founding Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Award. Since 1997 Triangle Publishers, after awarding Grahn a Lifetime Achievement Award in Lesbian Letters, have issued an annual Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award.

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The Queen of Swords

By Judy Grahn

The Queen of Swords
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Published: November 9, 1990

From Library Journal

This is the second of Grahn’s projected four-volume “Chronicle of Queens” series. Subtitled “a play with poetic myths,” it evolves around a modern-day Helen (associated with Inanna, the Sumerian Queen of Heaven and Earth) who descends to an underworld complete with a lesbian bar and a chorus of punning crow-dykes who put her through various trials designed to release her powers. The play is followed by two poems, connected thematically and imagistically, and exhaustive notes explaining the mythic allusions. Grahn’s Queen series is ambitious, difficult, complex, interesting, and worthy of our attention. Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans P.L.
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