Lesléa Newman | Nobody’s Mother | In her deepest and most personal work to date, Lesla Newman once again captures in eloquent, lyrical language the joys and sorrows of contemporary Ame
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | The Zenith of Desire | For Valentine’s Day or any other day when the time seems right, this is the ideal gift book for the lesbian market. The focus is on the 20th-century a
Elsa Gidlow | Sapphic Songs | An enthralling collection of love poems written by the poet from age seventeen (“Love’s Acolyte,” written in 1918) to those written in the poet’s seve
Elana Dykewomon | What Can I Ask | Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBT Studies. ‘Elana Dykewomon’s poems are reminders not to take anything for granted: to listen to the messa
Pierre Louys | The Songs of Bilitis | First published in Paris in 1894, this purports to be translations of poems by a woman named Bilitis, a contemporary and acquaintance of Sappho. This
Joan Larkin | Housework | Housework was Joan’s first published book of poetry. It includes Mimi Weisbord’s paintings of dollhouses, which hint of primal family dramas. Housewor
Joan Larkin; Elly Bulkin | Lesbian Poetry | One of the first anthologies of lesbian poetry, this ground-breaking book gathered a wide range of poetry and poets, some appearing for the first time