Category: Poetry

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Night Rained Her by Isel Rivero

Isel Rivero | Night Rained Her | Twenty-one poems on love, accompanied by a number of black and white facsimile sketches by Carol Henderson. 200 handbound copies.

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Blind Girl Grunt by Constance Merritt

Constance Merritt | Blind Girl Grunt | These poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, “Invisible Woman, Dancing,” is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a p

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Wanting Women: An Anthology of Erotic Lesbian Poetry by Jan Hardy

Jan Hardy | Wanting Women: An Anthology of Erotic Lesbian Poetry | With contributions by Tee Corinne, Lesléa Newman, Marilyn Hacker, S. J. Miranda and many others.

A collection of erotic poetry by 43 lesbian

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The Hand That Cradles The Rock by Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown | The Hand That Cradles The Rock | As a poet, Brown has a decidedly tin ear. First published in 1971 and 1973 as The Hand that Cradles the Rock and Songs to a Handsome Woman, these poem

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Sense You by Gingerlox; Vicki P. McConnell

Gingerlox; Vicki P. McConnell | Sense You | Sense You is a selection of poems both sensitive and stirring. In its hands, mouths and words caress unencumbered by clothes, extraneous images or hes

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Trying to Be an Honest Woman by Judith Barrington

Judith Barrington | Trying to Be an Honest Woman | ‘Graceful, urbane poetry, claiming respect with its distilled clarity and hitting the deepest psychological nerves.’–OUT/LOOK

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Play Dead by Francine J. Harris

Francine J. Harris | Play Dead | ‘This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. Francine J.

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Directed By Desire by June Jordan

June Jordan | Directed By Desire | “Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”–Alice Walker “Always urgent, inspiring, a

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Naming The Waves by Christian McEwen

Christian McEwen | Naming The Waves | We are unable to provide a description at this time.

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I Like What I Like by Ochi

Ochi | I Like What I Like | From her earliest memory of a childhood incident to her most recent experience at age 58, Ochi allows readers to share in her life, her journey and he