Jayne Cortez: April 12, 1985

The Poetry Center presents Jayne Cortez [as part of a program shared with French novelist and feminist theorist Monique Wittig] at the Women Working in Literature Conference, held at Fort Mason, San Francisco. Cortez reads her poems from the recently published book Coagulations: New and Selected Poems (Thunder's Mouth Press,1984).

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Location
Fort Mason, San Francisco
Date
04/12/1985
Total Run Time
00:22:49
Contributor
Frances Phillips
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Frances Phillips introduces Jayne Cortez. Cortez reads the following poems from Coagulations: "Blood Suckers," "If the Drum is a Woman," "Everything is Wonderful," "Rape," "Plain Truth," "You Know," "There It Is," "Military Spending, Huge Profits, and Death," and "Memo to a President."

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