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 Thinking StraightBest Price: $7.99 Robin Reardon has written an extraordinary second book. I read her first book, A Secret Edge,... |  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)Best Price: $1.46 I wish I'd read this book 30 years ago when it came out. It's still as relevant today as it was... |  Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient GreeceBest Price: $15.95 "Sappho's Lyre", written by Diane J. Rayor, is sensationally crafted in chronological... |  Sappho: A New TranslationBest Price: $4.16 I hate to say it, but this book made me somewhat regret studying Ancient Greek. I was given a... |  The Mirror of LoveBest Price: $5.00 While the focus of this work is on gay, lesbian, and bisexual history, ultimately it is an epic... |
 Femmes: Masterpieces of Erotic PhotographyBest Price: $17.79 Bring four dozen photographers together, and you have to expect that many visions. Ask four... |  Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural WorkerBest Price: $8.37 Joanna Kadi's clear prose strikes out powerfully against the dominance of the upper class in all... |  Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)Best Price: $7.41 This was the best money I've spent on a book this year, maybe ever, and although I'm not much of... |  The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and SocietyBest Price: $20.94 The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study... |  Deviant Propulsion: PoemsBest Price: $7.93 One of the best books of poetry I have read in years. Few books give such joy and strength. My... |
 Cottonmouth KissesBest Price: $6.80 I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this book as a gift! Just like Clint, this book is... |  Another Mother TongueBest Price: $5.98 Another Mother Tongue is one of the dozen or so most important books I have ever read. It may... |  The Beautifully WorthlessBest Price: $5.29 I may never speak ill of poetry again. Because this collection flows so well as a whole... |  The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack SpicerBest Price: $22.45 A must for anyone interested in 1 of the 3 greatest poets [writing in english] circa 1950 to... |  The Darker Fall: PoemsBest Price: $4.95 Get this book if you're looking for real poetry writing. Barot is an amazing poet who has an... |
 Unraveling at the NameBest Price: $8.36 Jenny Factor, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon, 2002) Jenny Factor is a good poet, and a... |  Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for RogBest Price: $41.24 I had no idea that a simple page of unpunctuated emotion could grind at your heart and make you... |  LegacyI found Ekua Omosupe's(the author--the author's photo was shot by Maria R. Davila) book to be... |  Torch Song TrilogyBest Price: $44.94 |  Roman Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)Best Price: $7.37 Many here in the US know Pier Paolo Pasolini as a filmmaker, and many know him solely for his... |
 The Erotic WhitmanBest Price: $6.00 In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak... |  The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave (Stonewall Inn Editions)Best Price: $2.08 If you want something to express YOU, this book will give you what you want! |  Sappho - Poems, A New VersionBest Price: $5.96 Although I am not an expert, I am a scholar, and I found this book of poems by Sappho who lived... |  Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us AboutBest Price: $8.90 A famous first for Chicanas, a bold continuation of the subject after "Companeras: Latina... |  Such Is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare's SonnetsBest Price: $21.00 Given the importance of this book, I find myself puzzled by thefact that I am the first to... |
 Wanting Women: An Anthology of Erotic Lesbian PoetryBest Price: $46.68 I found this anthology when it was recommended in the book 'The Body of Love' by Tee A. Corinne... |  Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War IIBest Price: $24.95 |  Gay HaikuBest Price: $7.75 This tawdry collection of stereotypes receives two stars because the author bothered to make... |  The Beautiful: Collected PoemsBest Price: $8.93 I was very disappointed to see this collection rated so poorly. If you're expecting... |  Gay Love PoetryBest Price: $3.30 This collection of poems of love, longing, sadness, rejection, and mourning for lost loves... |
 One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother DiesBest Price: $2.66 In the book in the book I'm reading called another one of those hideous books where the mother... |  Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of DesireBest Price: $3.00 T. Cole Rachel and Rita D. Costello (eds.) Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire... |  Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)Best Price: $6.99 This is simply a swell collections of poems. Some are sweet, others painful. All are provoking. |  Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception (Hellenic Studies)Best Price: $14.77 This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and... |  A Frieze for a Temple of LoveBest Price: $7.78 "Poor Edward Field." Well, at least to hear HIM tell it. "I'm gay, a Jew, and a... |
 Tender ButtonsBest Price: $10.13 I am a student of poetry and a poet myself. I can't say I am any better than a Gertrude Stein... |  Pastoral: PoemsBest Price: $8.03 i love this line by carl phillips, "iliadic, vulnerable, the nipples." so vivid and... |  Elizabeth BishopBest Price: $10.00 |  The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005Best Price: $1.98 Lauded by luminaries such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, and Joy Harjo, among others, the... |  Crossing the DMZ |
 Lovers and mothers |  Highest AppleI can't believe no one else has reviewed this book. This is Grahn's exploration of lesbian... |  The Art of CinemaBest Price: $10.72 This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's own work for the cinema with... |  Limericks Naughty and GayBest Price: $47.93 You don't have to be gay to enjoy these limericks, but you have to be ready for some bawdiness... |  Plush: The Selected Poems of Sky Gilbert, Courtnay McFarlane, Jeffery Conway, R.M. Vaughan, and David TrinidadBest Price: $11.85 This collection of poetry features five hot gay poets from Canada and America whose work is... |
 ARC OF LOVE: An Anthology of Lesbian Love PoemsBest Price: $4.95 A solid collection, though there are some howlers. A great resource for the study of lesbian... |  An Emergence of GreenBest Price: $16.84 Alice Street Editions has released a new edition of this 1986 novel by author Katherine V.... |  The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New WorldBest Price: $5.19 National Poetry Series winner, gay Latino |  Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions)Lambda Literary Award winner I bought this book because it is spotlighted in the introduction... |  Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women WritersBest Price: $22.00 Galvin provides a critical look at the intersections between the development of... |
 One Thousand and One-Second Stories (Sun & Moon Classics Series, Book 138)While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I would be hesitent to recommend it to everyone. On the... |  Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D'AllesandroBest Price: $17.93 Real contains letters between Dodie Bellamy (Mina Harker) and Sam D'Allesandro; a story that was... |  A Burst of LightBest Price: $4.79 In this beautiful collection of interviews, essays, and journal writings, Audre Lorde remains... |  Not VanishingNative American poet Chrystos was born in 1946 in San Francisco and is part of a group... |  Sapphic songs: Seventeen to seventy |
 The Boys in the BrownstoneBest Price: $1.62 This is a truly excellent read. Mr. Scott does the nearly impossible. We are brought into the... |  Shift (Phoenix Poets Series)Best Price: $11.00 Merrin's collection of poetry is one that makes the reader stop after every 1-2 poems to think... |  The Second Person: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selection)Best Price: $7.49 Drawing on traditional forms including the villanelle and pantoum, and writing with an ear for a... | ||
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