Becker stands firmly on the shoulder of earlier lesbian-feminist poets while inhabiting and describing our current era of new challenges and old shibboleths.
She said something to me, then, that has been a great comfort. “You had a choice,” she said, “but you did not have free will.” A choice that was no choice at all.
Just in time for Yom Kippur, a thousand-year-old prayer book for the holiday is to be put online. The ancient manuscript was discovered in Postat, Egypt.