.Sinister_Wisdom’s newest Sapphic Classic, 'A Generous Spirit: Selected Work' by Beth Brant was released today. JulieREnszer reflects:
in Ferndale, Michigan, organized a writing workshop with Beth. I attended. I cannot remember the order of these events. Did I go to dinner at the house before or after the bookstore workshop? I do not know.
Beth and Denise and I became friends. Then I broke up with my girlfriend in a way that made Beth cross with me. I avoided her. Then I moved away from Detroit. Writing this today, I shudder at the folly of my youth—how I did not hold on to what was sacred to me, to writers, to Beth. I did not talk to Beth before her death. I always wish that I had repaired that relationship. I carry an enormous sense of gratitude for those conversations with Beth. She helped me peer inside what it meant to be a writer, not the operations of it, the details of publishing, but the spirit and commitment to it. I remember Beth showing me her desk, the material she used to write, and also her sense of imaginative expanse in the world. There were stories everywhere, waiting for us to catch them.
As was the case with more than a few lesbian writers, Beth was under-appreciated in her hometown of Detroit, though beloved by many across the United States and in Canada. In spite of this fact, much of Detroit for me reveals the spirit of Beth: the gritty suburbs, the people who scrap a living from the city helping the people around them, the world of Detroit and its suburbs, was grist for the mill of Beth’s creativity. Her language enlivened the city to me.
Rich wrote, “my face must have meaning.” Beth’s face gave meaning to Detroit, and meaning to the phrase “living writer.”
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