eds. Carl Morse & Joan Larkin. 
 
St Martin's Press: 1988. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Chipping along the top and bottom of the jacket. Sunning along the top of the jacket, including its flaps. Jacket slighlty warped. 401 pages. Very good. Signed in by the contributor Adrienne Rich in blue pen: "Adrienne Rich '88". 
 
Signed copy owned by the laureate Rich, a contributor. Anthology includes Gloria Anzaldua, James Baldwin, W.H. Auden, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Thom Ghunn, Joy Hart, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, and Tennessee Williams. 
 
"I remember here in this living room at a party I mentioned to a straight woman editor I knew only slightly that we were doing this book, and she got really angry. She said, 'Why does there gave to be a separate book for gay people?' At the time I felt she was blaming us and said, 'Well, it isn't our fault.' Later I found out that this woman's son was dying of AIDS, and that she was unable to tell anyone."