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18 1 empurpled. “Great News! We have made it into the language”, writes astrophysicist, Meryl Waugh: from the 3rd (latest) edition of The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary (1997): "empurple v.tr/ 1. to make purple or red 2. to make angry.” 2 purple shift. Red shift and blue shift describe the respective move away from or towards the observer. In measuring the speed and direction of the motion of stars wavelengths are distorted: a shift to the longer red wavelength indicates movement away from the observer; a shift to the shorter blue indicates movement towards the observer. Purple shift describes the movement of an emotion into a different dimension. Neither towards nor away, the shift represents an emotional leap of faith into another realm, away from patriarchy, and certainly out of this world. What Suniti Namjoshi calls an “unfamiliar realm”. 3 the whole world turns purple. “Morgan [E.M. Forster] says he’s worked it out and spends 3 hours on food, 6 on sleep, 4 on work, 2 on love. Lytton [Strachey] says 10 on love. I say the whole day on love. I say it’s seeing things through a purple shade. But you've never been in love they say.” Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville- West, 18 February, 1927. In Louise De Salvo and Mitchell A Leaska (Eds.). 1985. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. p. 204. The history of the association of purple with homosexuality is a long one and attested to by Judy Grahn’s first chapter in her history of gay and lesbian metaphor, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984). A poem by Anonymous entitled, “A Woman’s Song: To Her Indifferent Lover” written in Latin in the eleventh century includes these lines: “Ver purpuratum exiit / ornatos suos unduit: / aspegit terram floribus, / ligna silvarum frondibus.” Gillian Spragg has translated this poem and the verse reads: “Spring, like a queen in purple comes, / puts on her gems: / with leaves and boughs / they sing their joy for hours.” Although poems celebrating nature are common throughout the history of poetry, and purple is not unusual in contexts such as this, it remains interesting that it is a lesbianauthored poem which here picks up on these images. H.D. in her imagist poetry of the twentieth century was to pick up on many of these elements in her work which resonates with allusion to Classical Greek culture. In particular, her poem, “Hyacinth” alludes to the ability of this flower to withstand the cold, to be a precursor to spring, even while the icy winds prevail. See H.D. 1983. Collected Poems: 1912-1944, pp. 201-206. Further, the poem by Anonymous is reminiscent of some of Sappho’s work. The complete original and translation can be found on the Babel Building Site, an interactive poetry site at 4 wolves. The Wolf Girls at Vassar were a group of girls at Vassar women’s college who cavorted at night dressed in wolf skins. They were perhaps acting out Djuna Barnes’ depiction of lesbian sexuality in Nightwood (1936). Cristina Biaggi writes of her last year in 1959: “Gail [Ellen Dunlap] got these two wolf skins from her father, so we decided to wear them – tied over the shoulder, like Hercules – everyone else was wearing Bermuda shorts – and we went out and howled. We howled in the morning and we howled at night.” Two years later the story had escalated, and Lucy Cross, writing of 1961, remarks: “some friends told me about the Wolf Girl – somebody who put on a wolf skin and went howling around the Circle in the full moon. That’s for me, I thought. There’s room for me.” See Anne Mackay (Ed.). 1993. Wolf Girls at Vassar, p. 17. Vassar has also been recorded in a poem by Rita Mae Brown entitled “A Song for Winds and My Vassar Women”. Rita Mae Brown. 1974. The Hand that Cradles the Rock, p. 50.
19 Empurpled 1 physicists speak of red shift I say that the purple shift 2 is more important it is when a woman falls in love for the first time with another woman and the whole world turns purple 3 today I say is a purple day in her hands the purple aubergine they kiss under a wall of purple flowers wisteria clumped like grapes ripe with liquid a single touch is enough to make it weep the purple shift afflicts many of us at different stages of our lives there are stories of girls sent away to boarding schools there they are meant to remain pure some of these girls have turned into wolves 4 inhabiting the night baying
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79 mani padme aum clouds wrap thems
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83 Tragedia they say it is a traged
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107 Carnivale 1 we sing sliding alo
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119 Almanac of the Dead 1 for Primr
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123 The drive to LA is too long. I
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125 Graveside Meditation We, the mo
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152 Mementos for Sindhu, she says,
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180 Poorvashada and Uttarshada— f
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182 Mourning my father, the stillne
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186 4 Feb In this one speeding car,
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188 I can haggle too, but not here.
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194 Second Sutra 26 May 2004, Delhi
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198 o The women of Jagori share lun
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214 Gravity’s rainbow could not f
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220 Oil and water I said, It’s no
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222 The Day of My Crucifixion for a
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230 Once long ago they said I was a
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232 women falling, falling … We a
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241 Jay, Karla. 1999. Tales of the
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247 Acknowledgements Some of the po
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