Pollitt, Katha
On every page a hero shakes his fist
while women on tractors chant deliriously “Take me!”,
hydroelectric dams, of their own free will,
produce a cascade of roses and bicycles
– Katha Pollitt, “An Anthology of Socialist Verse”
Read this interview with Katha Pollitt from Katonah Poetry:
http://katonahpoetry.com/interviews/interview-with-katha-pollitt/
Everything happens at once: court ladies pick iris,
nobles hunt pheasant, poets walk in the snow.
In a dragon-prowed boat, under a canopy of flowers,
Prince Genji, the great lover,
sails in triumph from bedroom to bedroom: in each
a woman flutters like a tiny jewelled fan.
– Katha Pollit, “A Screen Depicting the Fifty-Four Episodes of the Tale of Genji on a Background of Gold Leaf”
Watch Katha Pollitt discuss writing at the NYS Writing Institute:
Katha Pollitt at The NYS Writers Institute in 2015
Katha Pollitt, influential voice of American feminism and long-time columnist for The Nation, is the author of the much-talked-about book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014). Publishers Weekly described it as “an impassioned, persuasive case for understanding abortion in its proper context.”
