Yin Fire

By Alexandra Grilikhes

Book Overview

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. Doris Mills has a lump in her breast - the breast her father used to caress when he came in to say those special good-nights. Bold and timid, mad and sane by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560232137
• ISBN13: 9781560232131
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Alice Street Editions
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Poet's Healing Journey

Alexandra Grilikhes was a wonderful poet, editor, and novelist who died in early 2003. This book, "Yin Fire", was the last thing she published during her lifetime. It is a remarkable achievement. Doris Mills, the protagonist, fights her way through feelings of dislocation, dread, and "dryness" with the help of mysticism and Oriental medicine. In the process, she relives parts of her past and her self that had been buried. Rummaging through artifacts of old affairs, she comes face to face with the limitations, disappointments, and ultimate fragility of her own heart. She is able to rise, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of her failures into a purer, richer, deeper realm. Grilikhes presents this healing journey with a poet's keen eye for detail, nuance, color, and image. Vivid, dream-like erotic sketches dominate, presenting desire (both gratified and thwarted) in all its' blood-red glory. A poet's novel, to be sure, and none the less riveting for it.