Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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Page 51
And beyond this sea , now finally , in an awakened state , he knows will simply be another land , begging entrance , so that he might submerge himself in her darkness , to find what secrets ? Only this silence again .
And beyond this sea , now finally , in an awakened state , he knows will simply be another land , begging entrance , so that he might submerge himself in her darkness , to find what secrets ? Only this silence again .
Page 134
Fractures live in the air , invisible fractures come into his body , split his chromosomes , unravel the secrets of life in him . This secret life in us . The seen and the unseen . The speaking and the unspoken .
Fractures live in the air , invisible fractures come into his body , split his chromosomes , unravel the secrets of life in him . This secret life in us . The seen and the unseen . The speaking and the unspoken .
Page 147
We had been hiding this secret all our lives . We dreamed we were speaking in tongues . That all we had ever felt , our whole lives , became clear to us . That language was beautiful . Lyrical . That we were singing .
We had been hiding this secret all our lives . We dreamed we were speaking in tongues . That all we had ever felt , our whole lives , became clear to us . That language was beautiful . Lyrical . That we were singing .
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingI realize this is considered a classic in feminist literature, but it is not anything like what I was expecting and I found Griffin's stream of consciousness style to be very distracting. This is not ... Read full review
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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