Alamosa Public Library

Anne Sexton, who died at forty-five by her own hand in 1974, was, as she herself claimed, "the only confessional poet," and is one of the most widely read poets of recent decades. Her life displayed little to anticipate artistic achievement until after the birth of her second daughter, when she suffered a suicidal breakdown. Her psychic identity was so severely threatened that even psychiatric interventions had little effect, until her therapist...

Chronology of world literary events from 1900 to 1996 including a listing of the hardcover and paperback bestsellers, the winners of the Alfred B. Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize winners, and the significant births and deaths in the literary world.

Examines the historical context of twentieth-century literature, describing the events, movements, and figures that influenced specific literary works, and includes a chronology of the historical events covered

While "the male condition" is increasingly the focus of critical inquiry, the first images to come to most minds are those associated, ironically enough, with the resoundingly heterosexual men's movement - sweat lodges, primal screams, etc. As these images quickly become cliched, a more progressive and less primitivist movement continues to gather strength, namely one that examines the experiences and writings of homosexual men. In this groundbreaking...

A collection of stories, plays and poetry by Native American writers from North and South America.

10 essays discussing the problems of discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. The difficulty arises from historical pressures against writing opening about same-sex emotions and relationships. A comparison of the language of the literary piece to the vocabulary of the era is often analyzed.

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.