This book gathers all the poems written by Lynn Lonidier (1937-1993) between her last book and her death. Lynn Lonidier was a streetwise, visionary poet whose idiom was a jazzy American English with San Francisco Mission-district Spanish thrown into the mix. Unequivocally lesbian and feminist, consistently dedicated to the underprivileged, her work brims with anger and irony, energy and humor, yet is suffused with loving tenderness throughout.
Lynn Lonidier was born in Lakeview, Oregon in 1937. She was a teacher, author, and a multimedia and theater/performance artist. She was active in the San Francisco literary scene especially within the lesbian/feminist community during the 1970s until the time of her death in 1993. Also a musician, she studied and collaborated with Pauline Oliveros at the University of California at San Diego. She also attended San Francisco State University where, as a cellist, she majored in performance. She also received an M.A. in Media Education from the University of Washington at Seattle.
While teaching public school in Northern California in the 1960s,Lynn Lonidierparticipated in the “Poet in the Schools” program. She also helped coordinate the Pegasus Program, sponsored by San Francisco State University, that encouraged public school students to write and publish, under Lonidier’s direction, numerous chapbooks. She also encouraged the writing of bilingual poetry, especially Spanish/English, to children in San Francisco’s Mission District.
During the 1970s and 1980s, she taught and lectured on feminist topics in writing and multimedia performance in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, especially at the San Francisco Women’s Building of which she was a “Founding Mother.”
She was also a “light-optics artist” in 1969 for the Electric Circus in New York City and also worked in the same capacity at the 1970’s World Fairl9
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