![]() She addresses this on her Web site, "I returned to poetry not because I had 'become a lesbian'ibut because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation." Pratt took over all aspects (except illustrations) of publishing her book and toured around the country, selling thousands of copies as she read. Pratt had written poetry during college, but had stopped during her marriage she began again when she fell in love with another woman in 1975. Pratt's first book of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, was inspired by the women's liberation and lesbian/gay liberation movements of the 1970s. ![]() She has surveyed her Southern, middle-class upbringing, her ten-year marriage and strained divorce, her battle to retain relationships with her sons, and her subsequent life as a lesbian poet. By chronicling her existence in poetry and prose, Pratt has explored themes reflecting the particularities of her life. ![]() In addition to receiving acclaim for her verse, Pratt is acknowledged as an essayist, activist, lesbian-feminist, and educator. Minnie Bruce Pratt is recognized as an eminent poet in the United States. ![]()
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