Famous Rapes #3: Lynching and “The One Crime”
The KKK, The Birth of a Nation, and the origins of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
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Andrea Baker
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Andrea Baker’s next collection of poetry, Each Thing Unblurred is Broken, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in Fall 2015. She is also the author of Like Wind Loves a Window (Slope Editions, 2005) and the chapbooks true poems about the river go like this (Cannibal Books, 2006) and gilda (Poetry Society of America, 2004). Visit her on the web at andreabaker.us.
Famous Rapes #2: Marital Rape
This is the second in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape, as seen through different time periods.
Famous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods.
Songs of Our Lives: Frida Hyvönen’s “Pony”
His loneliness lay around me like a fence. The promise was that once I solved the loneliness the fence would dissipate. But I couldn’t solve it.