Author's name used on publication is "Red I. Arobateau". Includes the following poems: The Magician, The Impossibility of Sleep, The Fire Rites, A Row of Paints, Valentine I, and Shape of the Lie.

In Collection:

• Red Jordan Arobateau Collection

Creator

• Arobateau, Red Jordan

Subject

• Lesbians
• Gay culture
• Transgender people's writings
• Transgender people's writings, American

Publisher

• [California?] : [Red Jordan Arobateau]

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: PS3551.R587 S56 1972

Keyword

• Lesbians
• Transgender authors
• Lesbian culture
• Lesbian poetry

Date created

• 1972

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 35 pages ; 21.5 x 14 cm

Additional physical characteristics

• Illustrations appear on cover (line drawings), and on two unnumbered pages in the centre of the book (photographs).
• Saddle stitched.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Red Jordan Arobateau Collection

Provenance

• Part of the UVic Transgender Archives. Gift of the Estate of Red Jordan Arobateau, 2022.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• books
• publications (documents)
• poems
• prose poems
• poetry

Date digitized

• November 2025 to December 2025

Technical note

• Scanned as 600DPI tiffs on the Plustek Opticbook A300, images cropped then converted to PDF using ABBY Finereader by PD. Metadata by KD. Keywords from the Homosaurus.

Rights

• Copyright retained by Red Jordan Arobateau estate. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/jtgm-vh54

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