Made from This Earth: Selections from Her Writing, 1967-1982

by Susan Griffin

Poetry, fiction, plays, important nonfiction essays written from 1967-1982.

Genres: Feminism, Poetry, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Susan Griffin is an award winning poet, writer, essayist and playwright who has written nineteen books, including A Chorus of Stones, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Named by Utne reader as one of the top hundred visionaries of the new millenium, she is the recipient of an Emmy for her play Voices, an NEA grant and a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation. Her latest work, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, on being an American Citizen has been called "fresh, probing" and "incisive" by Booklist.

Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Susan Griffin's collection of Poetry, fiction, one plays, essays, reviews, etc. written from 1967-1982 is necessarily a hodgepodge. One poem stands out, "The Song of a Woman with Her Parts Coming Out". I would like to hear it as a song by Diamanda Galás. Her prose is poetical" allusive, descriptive without being direct. Her poetry is prose-like. The initial material of first-person interviews really stands out. This includes women recalling abortions including when they were illegal and woman recalling rape. In one case, these were part of the same event.