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Hello. This is Jane.
"Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories— children’s playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages." —Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival, Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers’ Daughters, Every Mother’s Son, and What if your mother are feminist classics. The stories in this new collec...
Here From Somewhere Else
Winner, 2015 Turtle Island Editor's Choice Chapbook Award.According to Jennifer Richter, author of the poetry collections Threshold and No Acute Distress, "Here From Somewhere Else, Judith Arcana's gorgeous new collection, has movement at its core. Many of these poems are fueled by questions-questions that generate a powerful urgency and contribute to the book's compelling internal momentum. A curious voice and generous heart guide us through Arcana's geographical and emotional landscapes; I was delighted but not surprised that here, love gets the very last word."
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What If Your Mother
"It's a passionate rush of language, hope in a hard time, truth in the middle of lies. This poetry sparks and burns with the hidden language and stories of women" -Minnie Bruce Pratt Judith Arcana, a reproductive rights activist formerly involved in Chicago's pre-Rose v. Wade underground abortion service, imbues her poetry, fiction and essays with the same ferocity, humor and passion that informs her activism. As Grace Paley wrote, "What I love about this important book is how the work Judith began in Chicago years ago has deepened in poetry and prose with love for the lives of women." In light of the leaked 2022 decision regarding Roe, it's more important than ever that we examine and pr...
Announcements from the Planetarium
"Dear Judith Arcana Not only do I like your book, I love it. Could there ever be a collection more endearing? Great wit, music, and pacing. Vivid passionate hungers, all stitched through the nubby fabric of aging with gorgeous shining threads. We can wrap ourselves right up in these poems for courage and verve. Sincerely yours, Naomi Shihab Nye" Announcements from the Planetarium examines aging and changing, wisdom and memory, and includes poems from Arcana's Mixtape Series and her Speculative Music Theory quartet. According to Judith Vollmer, "Judith Arcana's poems [are] both familiar and refreshingly strange .... jagged elegies on 'time available' and 'the short version, ' dazzling crows, lonely streets, and mournful seers, with a hyper-realist eye on the past. Wisdom-riffs earned (wryly) 'perhaps as compensation' counterpoint her portraits of loss: of land, water, and the 'grandmothers [who]/could move like flowers' yet who, "When we came here, [...] would not come." And then: she slips away to an urgent world of 'wind, shining like the flash inside/my skull-' [to] revere and celebrate freedom ...."
The Parachute Jump Effect
Reminiscence of Mount Erin Convent and High School, Wagga Wagga
Jane
Brochures and pamphlets from Jane, an abortion service in Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appear (rekeyed) in this political zine. There are also interviews with women who worked with Jane and a discussion of feminist politics and abortion, especially with regard to race and class and police persecution.
Every Mother's Son
"How can a mother care lovingly for a small boy, yet avoid reinforcing the examples he receives from all around him? How can she challenge male stereotypes, and at the same time fit him to survive in the world in which we live? Can our sons grow up to be our friends? Judith Arcana ... faced these questions with her own son, and has drawn on the diary she kept then, as well as on interviews with other women, to write this moving, honest and thought-provoking book."--Page 4 of cover.
Grace Paley's Life Stories
Is at the core of Judith Arcana's biographical reading of this strongly autobiographical writer. Grace Paley's Life Stories interweaves details about Paley with critical discussions of her works, examining her as a woman, mother, activist, and Jew. Arcana visited and interviewed Paley at her homes in Vermont and New York over a period of several years. She also interviewed Paley's family, friends, and colleagues. Such extensive research is unmatched in Paley scholarship.
