Nominated for a 1993 Lambda Literary Award for her collection of poetry, Black Slip, the author traces the conflicts between the mother of the victim of a car accident who lies in a coma and her daughter's lesbian lover. IP.

Bailey's Beads

Literature & Fiction

WOLVERTON, TERRY

United States

Faber&Faber

A third anthology in the Lambda Literary Award-winning series presents a new collection of short fiction by lesbian writers, including Emma Donoghue, Barbara Wilson, Judith Barrington, Donna Allegra, Natasha Cho, and Carolyn Clark, among others. Original.

Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers

Short stories reflecting gay life and culture showcase the work of Gary Bowen, Philip Gambone, Declan Meade, David Pratt, Reginald Sheperd, Henri Tran, and David Watmough.

His 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers

In the 1970's, the West Coast feminist arts movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Founded by artist Judy Chicago, the Woman's Building was conceived as a "public center for women's culture." Women from across the country were drawn there to be part of a community engaged in the exploration of what a female-centered culture might mean.
In Insurgent Muse, Terry Wolverton chronicles her own 13-year involvement in the Woman's Building. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project and, eventually, the Building's executive director. Her journey–emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism–entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash.
Insurgent Muse is a powerful testament to the importance of feminist thought and the ongoing need for it–by women and men–today.
"The spirit of the legendary Woman's Building lives on in this unflinchingly brave and tender memoir. Terry Wolverton's Insurgent Muse is witty, heart-rending, superbly honest and deeply moving, providing an acute social analysis of a young life and a memorable era of feminism that fueled so much art and so many epiphanies. The great work of the Woman's Building deserves this book."—Lucy Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
"The Woman's Building became a North Star on a dream map for women who were looking to redefine their lives and work. And its history—rich, splintered, groundbreaking—is the subject of a new book."—Los Angeles Times
"As her memoir illustrates, being a woman artist in the mid-1970s was profoundly revolutionary."—Lesbian News
"Her documentation of the ideals, debates, and out-and-out battles waged during this important time in the feminist movement will give young women both a surprising and relatable snapshot of the era . . . An inspirational read."—Bust Magazine
"Poet and novelist Wolverton describes her life and work at . . . the Woman's Building, a center for feminist art and culture in Los Angeles... provides an intimate look at the organizational struggles and triumphs. Recommended for public and academic libraries with extensive women's studies or art history collections, particularly on the West Coast."—Library Journal
"Is any individual life a representative life? Terry Wolverton’s seems to be in so many ways. Her searingly honest memoir tells what it was like to be a woman, an artist, a lesbian during those heady, storm and stress decades of the 1970s and ’80s. It’s all here—the multi-lover dyko dramas, the intersection of personal and political, the Coming Out and Recovery and remembering sexual abuse movements, the rise and fall of a women’s cultural center, the Woman’s Building in L.A. Wolverton has a poet’s sense of the complexities of the interior life and an eye witness’s intimacy with that era. Anyone wanting to know what it was like to be a woman, an artist, a lesbian at the end of the last American century will find this book indispensable."—Rebecca Brown, author of The Terrible Girls and The Dogs (both published by City Lights)
Terry Wolverton is the author of the novel Bailey’s Beads and two collections of poetry, Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. She has also edited numerous anthologies of gay and lesbian fiction, including His and Hers (Vols I-III).

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

City Lights Publishers

Terry Wolverton is the author of nine books, including novels, memoir, and poetry. BREATH AND OTHER STORIES is the first time her short fiction, written over the past two decades, has been collected in one volume. In "Breath," a mother wrestles with how much freedom for her daughter might be too much. In "Sex Less," a lesbian contemplates her waning desire and what impact this might have on her identity. In "A Whisper in the Veins," a man attempts to tell his mother he's been diagnosed with AIDS. In "News," a woman's life is taken over by her preoccupation with the headlines. The characters in Wolverton's short fiction speak to us about their inner lives in ways that are unforgettable.

Breath and other stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Silverton Books

"Why are not my arms outstretched to greet the day, instead of my jaw clenched to withstand it?  Why the heart curled into fist of dread?" asks author Terry Wolverton in this collection of 49 lyric essays, illustrated with original photographs by Yvonne M. Estrada. WOUNDED WORLD: LYRIC ESSAYS ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL DISQUIET that explores how what we think of as our social problems are really spiritual problems and poses prayers, practices and perspectives to begin to remedy them.

Wounded World: lyric essays about our spiritual disquiet

Essays & Correspondence

Some of Los Angeles' most exciting poets use a collaborative process to create new works, including Elena Karina Byrne, Sesshu Foster, Ramón Garcia, Douglas Kearney and Terry Wolverton.

Bird Float, Tree Song: Collaborative Poems by Los Angeles Poets

Poetry

"Why are not my arms outstretched to greet the day, instead of my jaw clenched to withstand it? Why the heart curled into fist of dread?" asks author Terry Wolverton in this collection of 49 lyric essays. WOUNDED WORLD: LYRIC ESSAYS ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL DISQUIET that explores how what we think of as our social problems are really spiritual problems and poses prayers, practices and perspectives to begin to remedy them.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ruin Porn

Finishing Line Press

Blue Hunger

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Bailey's Beads

Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers

His 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

Breath and other stories

Wounded World: lyric essays about our spiritual disquiet

Bird Float, Tree Song: Collaborative Poems by Los Angeles Poets

Wounded World: lyric essays about our spiritual disquiet

Ruin Porn

Blue Hunger