You are the rain : a novel
- Title
- You are the rain : a novel
- Description
- When a hurricane strikes an all-girl canoe trip in the Florida Everglades, athletic Crash and introvert June become separated from the group and must depend on each other to survive. The novel is described as being “Of lesbian interest” in the 1975-76 catalogue of women’s bookstore First Things First, although the relationship is implied rather than overt. The novel is endorsed on the back cover by lesbian poet Adrienne Rich, with several references to the poetry of Emily Dickinson throughout. The title is taken from a May Swenson poem – “I will be earth you be the flower / You have found my root you are the rain”. Swenson and R.R. Knudson (1932-2008) were lovers in the mid-1960s. They collaborated on the collection ‘American Sports Poems’ (1988), and Knudson was Swenson’s literary executor on her death in 1989.
- Creator
- RR (Rozanne Ruth) Knudson (1932-2008)
- Location
- New York (NY)
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company
- Date
- 1978
- Tags
- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Lesbian Athletes
- Lesbian Fiction
- Lesbian Youth Literature
- Lesbians
- LGBTQ+ Athletes
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- LGBTQ+ Youth Literature
- Rights
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