Subjects:  1. Gay men    2. Gay men's writings, American    3. Ginsberg, Allen,    4. Love poetry, American    5. Poetry    6. Modern fiction   

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Wonderful selection of poems
I found this anthology when it was recommended in the book 'The Body of Love' by Tee A. Corinne and bought it to read the works of Jean Sirius, Tee Corinne, Joan Nestle, Leslea Newman, Susan Stinson and found the delightful work of 38 other artists.
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Subjects:  1. Erotic poetry, American    2. Lesbians    3. Lesbians' writings, American    4. Poetry    5. Women authors   

Editorial Review

These romantic, sensual, poignant, and humorous poems courageously describe lesbian experience in a way that pays tribute to the diverse and complex nature of women's sexuality. ... Read more

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Lyrical! Passionate! Exquisite!
WOW!!! This book is amazing. I don't usually care much for poetry, as I often find it dull or impossible to relate to. But this poetry was beautiful and moving. I could hardly put it down, wanting to wallow more in the luscious words, but at the same time I wanted to save the poems, to make the experience last as long as possible. The experience did last - I have read these poems over and over again, and each time I love and appreciate them more. Wow.
This is one of my favorite poetry collections.Oh, how much love, passion, laughter and tears are within these pages.I read it, front to back, in a day.I couln't put it down.What wonderful words to read and inspire a heart with love.

A feast of poetry and passion
An outstanding anthology of poetry from some incredible writers who compose with both skill andRead more

Subjects:  1. American Contemporary Poetry (Anthologies)    2. Anthologies (multiple authors)    3. Gay & Lesbian    4. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    5. General    6. Lesbians    7. Lesbians' writings, American    8. Love poetry, American    9. Poetry    10. Special Subjects In Literature    11. Women authors    12. American English    13. English    14. Gay & Lesbian studies    15. Literature of special Lesbian interest    16. Poetry / General    17. Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -    18. USA   

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Bull- Jean Rules
I have had this book for several years and each time I reread a story I gain a new appreciation for this book.I want more of Bull-Jean.

More Fun Than A Movie
In the haze of a Michigan Women's Festival delerium, standing next to Sharon Bridgforth in a bookstall, I bought her book, along with any other lesbian book of poetry I thought I might like. I've since reread this book repeatedly, recommended it repeatedly, and offer this opinion: If you like women, if you like to laugh, if you like a heart-breaking, soul-warming story, buy this book. Buy 12 of them.

The Blues like they were meant to be sung!
Sharon Bridgforth is a conjurer.She captures the voices of folks on the pages of this book whose stories would otherwise be lost in the wind.I laughed out loud, big old belly laughs, and read the stories aloud tofriends and family.This writer is a descendant of Langston Hughes and allthe folks who tell stories on the corner, in the back of the church, in thebeauty parlor and on the porch, looking at the sunset.Her deeply feltprose and poetry is redeeming.Thank you for one of the most enjoyableexperiences I've had as a reader in recent memory! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. African American lesbians    2. African American women    3. African Americans    4. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    5. Fiction    6. Fiction - General    7. Lesbian Studies    8. Poetry    9. Short Stories (single author)    10. Southern States   

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. American Contemporary Poetry    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay men    5. Poetry   

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HELP NEEDED "MERCY" POEM
Hi all,
BEST POET OF THE 21st CENTURY
Olga Broumas is the bearer of the ancient traditions of Hellenic culture and she has entwined this with the culture of her everyday life of America. This book embodies the true meaning of Western Civilization. There is no other like her. Buy this book and it will change your life!

I am moved
It's difficult to describe poetry in general, and Broumas's poetry in particular. I could say she is one of my favorite poets and Rave is one of my favorite books of poetry.Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. Feminism    3. General    4. Lesbian    5. Lesbians    6. Mythology, Greek    7. Poetry    8. Women    9. Poetry / General   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography - General    4. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    5. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    6. General    7. History    8. Homosexuality and literature    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Lesbians    11. Poets, American    12. United States    13. Biography: general   

Subjects:  1. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    2. Gay, John, 1685-1732    3. Poetry    4. English    5. Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries    6. Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish    7. Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries   

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An important personal and political testament
Audre Lorde, a prolific writer of both poetry and prose, is regarded by many (myself included) as a major figure in both African-American and lesbian literature. "A Burst of Light" is one of her important prose works. The book contains an interview, three short essays, and a lengthy collection of excerpts from the journal she kept during her battle against cancer.Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. African American lesbians    3. Biography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Breast    6. Cancer    7. Essays    8. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    9. Lesbian Studies    10. Lorde, Audre    11. Nonfiction    12. Nonfiction - General    13. Patients    14. Poets, American    15. Social conditions    16. United States   

Subjects:  1. Jeff Mann, poetry, gay, gay studies    2. Poetry / Single Author / American   

Subjects:  1. African American lesbians    2. African Americans    3. American - General    4. General    5. Lesbians    6. Literary collections    7. Poetry    8. Poetry / Single Author / General   

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The Key to Everything...
Have you ever been searching for the perfect words to catch her interest? or her heart?You'll find them here. "I offer you Persimmons"a poem of possibilities."The Western Union Lady" makes me laughand wonder who I might send the same telegram to. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthologies (multiple authors)    2. Lesbian    3. Lesbians' writings    4. Love poetry    5. Poetry    6. Poetry / General    7. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

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A Basic Book in Understanding Lesbian Culture
I can't believe no one else has reviewed this book. This is Grahn's exploration of lesbian poetry. She has said that it started out as a chapter in "Another Mother Tongue" but grew too large. If you have ever wondered why lesbians are called "lesbians" then you will know why after finishing this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American poetry    2. History and criticism    3. Homosexuality and literature    4. Lesbians' writings, American    5. Poetry    6. Sexuality In Literature    7. United States    8. Women authors    9. Influence    10. Sappho   

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Excitement of a New Palmer
LOGICALOGICS may be Ronald Palmer's first book of poems, but it has the assurance and swagger of one who's been around the block and up and down the waterfront more than once.We've been needing a poet like Palmer for as long as I can remember, and if he hadn't existed, it would have been necessary for one of us, or a committee, to invent him.A poet who is comfortable with politics and sex as he is with Blanchot and Wittgenstein, and who seems to have diverted streams of Language-centered poetry into the spurting stream of spoken word and performance derived, oral-based, shamanic diagetics, Ronald Palmer has the real thing going on, and his book is the answer to a maiden's dream in more ways than one would have thought possible.
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Subjects:  1. American - General    2. American Contemporary Poetry    3. Coming out (Sexual orientation    4. Coming out (Sexual orientation)    5. Gay Studies    6. Gay youth    7. Poetry    8. Problem families   

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Finding manifestations of holiness in earthly things
Written by Timothy Liu, editor of "Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry", Hard Evidence is a unique and original collection of free-form verse concerning such matters as finding manifestations of holiness in earthly things, gay sexuality, and the cruel legacy of the virus that causes AIDS. Hard evidence is eye-opening, thought-provoking poetry that flows from page to page, almost as if all part of one grand poem. Binoculars left in the backseat/of your car. Tread marks leading/to a flattened toad with flies/crawling over it. Those pagodas/in the distance somehow made/a difference - joss sticks stuck/in giant urns burnishing in the air. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - Asian American    2. American - General    3. Asian Americans    4. Gay men    5. Poetry    6. Gay Studies    7. Asian Studies   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Poetry    3. General & Literary Fiction    4. Literature of special Gay interest   

Editorial Review

The school of fish mentioned in the title poem of this book live at the bottom of the sea, but are somehow addicted to light. In her ninth book, Eileen Myles writes about the longing for light, for passion and decency, in a world diminished by death and dulled by forgetfulness. At the center of this powerful volume is an essay called "The Lesbian Poet," which Myles delivered at the Revolutionary Poetry Symposium at St Mark's Poetry Project in 1994. In this important, provocative essay Myles claims both male and female poets among her lesbian forebears. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. City and town life    3. Lesbians    4. Poetry    5. Women    6. Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -   

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A remarkable book -- one of the best in a long time
This is contemporary poetry at its best, using language gracefully,searching for completely new ways to write, digging into the marrow of thehuman psyche in order to tell us something about ourselves that has neverbeen expressed before. I'm a big admirer of Koestenbaum's and this is hisbest book to date, more challenging that the formal perfection of AnnaMoffo, and diving even further into the experimental depths thanRhapsodies. Highly recommended if you're a lover of American poetry -- thisguy is the real thing.

An Irresistible Narcissism
If Koestenbaum is a Narcissist, as so many reviewers have claimed, he's the smartest and sharpest one to come along for a long while.This book gains its strength from what the other reviewers are criticizing it for: its honesty and its self-examination.But while this introspective,melancholy boy marches out across classic confessional territory, thecadence of that march and the intricacy of the imagery should make the oldschool blush.I thoroughly enjoyed this wild ride, and I was moved,imagining myself as that "I," the "self" without the"pity."

An Irresistible Narcissism
If Koestenbaum is a Narcissist, as so many reviewers have claimed, he's the smartest and sharpest one to come along for a long while.This book gains its strength from what the other reviewers are criticizing it for: its honesty and its self-examination.But while this introspective,melancholy boy marches out across classic confessional territory, thecadence of that march and the intricacy of the imagery should make the oldschool blush.I thoroughly enjoyed this wild ride, and I was moved,imagining myself as that "I," the "self" without the"pity." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - General    2. American Contemporary Poetry    3. Gay men    4. Poetry    5. English    6. Literature: Texts    7. USA   

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Another Mother Tongue: Fluent, Fluid & Integral
Another Mother Tongue: Fluent, Fluid & Integral Another Mother Tongue: fluent and holy
Judy Grahn's book is one of the most important books I've ever read.It may well be one of the most important books ever written, at the very least having to do with gay life.It is a luminous tapestry of cultural history, folklore and autobiography woven with superlative skill in which is recounted nearly everything of importance about us as a people: who we are, where we've come from, where we're likely headed, and why we are special.The product of over a decade of research, the author has done nothing less than retrieve our entire suppressed history, our folklore, our pantheons of deities, our heritage, our heros and our glorious language - another mother tongue.Among the most critically important things we learn (or are reminded of) by Grahn's epochal work is that our tradition is an old one - a very, very old one, and that it is continuous thanks to the work of our spiritual ancestors (our first lover's first lover's first lover), that it crosses national and hemispheric boundaries and that it has spiritual roots. Grahn also reminds us of the intense, unrelenting degree of suppression to which the matrix heterosexist culture has gone (and may be prepared to go again) to marginalize our tradition.The author relates in her notes how, of all of the moving events that followed the initial publication of AMT in 1984 the most moving was her encounter with a Maori lesbian warrior in New Zealand, who fell weeping into her arms because she at last could see and understand the meaning of her life story.Having read, and re-read this volume, I know just how that woman felt.Judy Grahn has returned to our collective consciousness secret, sacred things long kept within the "racial memory."This she has done in a beautifully readable fashion.Judy Grahn knows all of the old stories, and she knows the signs and the persuasions - all of them - that are the spiritial patrimony of our people. This is a book to be loved, and that deserves to be read and read again.

almost perfect history of gay culture
Judy Grahn has deftly researched the subject of homosexual culture, both lesbian and gay. She demystifies the sources of popularly exepted "gay" language and mores'. She also clearly defines the originalplace of the gay male and the lesbian womin in herstory as well as history.A thorougly good read and an educational groundwork for anyone curious-forany reason-about homosexual culture. An impressive peice of work that Ihighly recommend! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Homosexuality    3. Lesbian Studies    4. Lesbianism    5. Lesbians    6. Miscellanea    7. Poetry    8. Sociology    9. Terminology    10. Gay & Lesbian studies    11. Social Science / Women's Studies   

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Simply Love
I have read the equisite poetry in this book five times in the last week.The words are simple.The emotions deep.It is about love.Simply that.It transcends all love and reaches levels in the heart and soul that take you to the core of any relationship.The joy.The pain.The anguish.The simple gifts we can give each other if we so allow.I have felt all of these emotions.I have cried.I have smiled. I have laughed outloud.I am not a lesbian. It makes no difference. But I have loved.I have loved and lost. I have loved and gained.Laura shows us in such a simple, heart rendering way that we are all the same.Each and every one of us require love.

Universal love poems
The poetry of "Lesbian Love and Heartache" is universal; it transcends
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Subjects:  1. American - General    2. Poetry    3. 20th Century American Poetry    4. American Contemporary Poetry    5. Lesbian    6. Lesbians    7. Love poetry, American    8. Single Author - American (General)