[Wendy Sloan]

Wonderful book, Mary.
Congratulations!

Actually, I get the impression that Lowell DID indeed imagine ... if not this victory, something very like it, don't you?
She seems to be speaking to the ages in her love poems, so that one day she would in fact be understood -- confident that day would come!

[Mary Meriam]

Thanks, Wendy!!!!

Very well said. I think you are completely right. Lowell was courageously ahead of her time. She was fearless about her love for Ada and wanted the world to know. As Faderman's essay says: Lowell wrote "the most remarkable, barely encoded, lesbian poems since Sappho.... and had no equal until Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-one Love Poems, which was published in 1976."

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