This classic work of lesbian poetry, about Minnie Bruce Pratt’s relationship to her two sons as a lesbian mother, was chosen in 1989 as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, an annual award given for the best second full-length book of poetry by a U.S. author to be forthcoming in the following year. The judges wrote, “In spare and forceful language Minnie Bruce Pratt tells a moving story of loss and recuperation, discovering linkages between her own disenfranchisement and the condition of other minorities. She makes it plain, in this masterful sequence of poems, that the real crime against nature is violence and oppression.” In 1991, Crime Against Nature was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature.
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