In an old issue of off our backs, the feminist news journal, I spot a remembrance of Grace Paley, the poet/fiction writer/activist who died last year, by Judith Arcana, her biographer. Judith's lovely piece ends this way:
"Grace is important to us readers, writers and activists struggling to be conscious, making real art out of what we know as real life, transforming real life into what we want it to be."
And there, under the story, is a large photo of Grace and two men holding a banner in front of a chain-link fence. Nuclear installation? Toxic waste dump? We don't know - we just see the word "This" on the banner. The men look serious, earnest, intense. Grace is short, of course. Her head just peeks out above the word This. She is grinning. This is what I want real life to be. This.












Comments (1)
Thanks for the wonderful post on a great author and activist. That's a wonderful quote by Judith Arcana.
Posted by Angelo Lopez
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June 13, 2008 7:36 PM
Posted on June 13, 2008 19:36