Julia Stein's Books
Dec.27.2008
My essay is in book anthology "What We Have in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies" edited by Janet Zandy, Feminist Press, NY. The book was a pathbreaking anthology helping to establish working class studies in the United States including both essays and course syllabi. I included both an essay and a course syllabus for a 1-day course I taught "Who Does...
Dec.27.2008
Shulamith is dramatic and narrative poetry in three parts: the first part is dramatic monologues in the voices of Biblical women such as Eve, Lilith, Sara, Rachel, Leah, Miriam etc; the second part are narrative poems about Yiddish-speaking women such as Isaach Bashevis Singer's writer sister, women of the Holocaust, and the only woman Hassidic rebbe; and the third part are poems...
Dec.27.2008
Walker Woman is environmental poetry about a Western American myth/woman who survives death of her father, best friend, and love affair through love of and connection with the American earth. The book has a series of poems about a teacher fighting layoffs and cuts in the program in which she is teaching.
Cover art by Ruth Weisberg "Exiles and Exodus" 1985
Dec.27.1992
Poetry about visionaries who survive hard times including pioneering jazz musicians and labor organizers in Guatamala and the United States taking on the impssible. The book pays homage to survivors of the horror in Chile of the 1970s, Guatemala and El Salvador in the 1980s, and refugees from Nazi Germany. The book, written in the 1980s, is really about surviving in opposition to...
Jun.01.1984
Poetry about three generations of Jewish women: immigrant grandmothers who clawed their way out of sweatshops; Anne Frank after she was arrested, and the author's surviving a harrowing illegal abortion
Cover photo of Julia Stein by David Brown
Essay on Joyce Carol Oates' novel Blonde about Marilyn Monroe as a 1950s working class heroine. Essay argues Oates uses literary techniques of modernism in her novel which is a important comment on both the actress and American culture.
About Julia
Julia Stein is a poet, fiction writer, and critic.
Her books of poetry are
Under the Ladder to Heaven (West End Press)
Desert Soldiers (California Classics)
Shulamith (West End Press)
Walker Woman (West End Press)
Connections
Causes Julia Stein Supports
Amnesty International
Doctors Without Borders
ACLU
Workman's Circle
Julia’s Favorite Books
War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, Golden Notebook,
God of Small Things, Bleak House, Links by Nuruddin Farah