Barbara Noda
Japanese American poet
Barbara Noda | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1953-01-14) January 14, 1953 (age 71) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry |
Barbara Noda (January 14, 1953), is a third generation Japanese American poet.[1] Noda draws upon her experience as a Japanese American Lesbian and Feminism, and also advocates for LGBT rights in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2][3]
Career
She is a contributor to the renowned feminist collection, This Bridge Called My Back.[4] She wrote the passage in section four of This Bridge Called My Back entitled Lowriding Through the Women's Movement.[5]
In 1979, she published a collection of poems entitled Strawberries that was published by Shameless Hussy Press.[6] Joy Parks wrote in The Body Politic that Strawberries "combines a passion for the music of language and a need for simplicity in art, a concept rooted within the poet's cultural heritage". She argues the poems in this collection "run the risk of sounding naive because they do not attempt to dazzle the reader with clever imagery, but depend on the simple sounds of the language to pose their message":
your outstretched arms
and your first whisper
are all I know of morning
"The simple language allows the poet to show herself more closely in the poem. The distancing techniques of more complicated devices would distill Noda's message and weaken the work". Parks opines that Noda may not be the "poet for everyone", but her poetry is "important for readers interested in the purity of language and those tired of intellectualized polemics".[7]
In June 1981, the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco presented Noda's one-act play Aw Shucks, about three stereotypical women devoted to pleasure, money and spirituality.[8]
See also
Poetry portal
LGBT portal
- Lesbian literature
- List of female poets
- List of LGBT rights activists
References
- ^ "Noda, Barbara". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ^ Wong, Sau-ling C.; Santa Ana, Jeffrey J. (Autumn 1999). "Gender and sexuality in Asian American literature". Signs. 25 (1): 171–226. ISSN 0097-9740. ProQuest 198646439.
- ^ Mendenhall, George (November 9, 1978). "New Gay Center Funding Before Board". Bay Area Reporter. Vol. 8, no. 23. p. 10.
- ^ Moraga, Cherríe; Anzaldúa, Gloria, eds. (November 2021). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. ISBN 978-1-4384-8827-1. OCLC 1276792564.
- ^ Lew, Janey (2017). "A Politics of Meeting: Reading Intersectional Indigenous Feminist Praxis in Lee Maracle's Sojourners and Sundogs". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 38 (1): 225–259. ProQuest 1882444381.
- ^ Davidson, Cathy N.; Wagner-Martin, Linda; Ammons, Elizabeth, eds. (1995). "Asian-American Lesbian Poets". Asian-American Writing. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195066081.
- ^ Parks, Joy (November 1982). "Particular truths, simple dictions". The Body Politic. No. 88. p. 48. ISSN 0315-3606. 10389261.
- ^ McLeod, Douglas (May 31, 1981). "Gay Asians in Our Society". The San Francisco Examiner.
Further reading
- Bulkin, Elly; Larkin, Joan, eds. (1981). Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology. Watertown, Mass: Persephone Press. ISBN 0-930436-08-3.
