Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1989. A sequence of poems, about the love of a mother for her sons, which takes its name from the statute under which the author could have been prosecuted as a lesbian if she had sought to gain custody of her children. Slip from the Academy of American Poets laid in. ISBN: 0-932379737.