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- Book Title
- All We Know of Pleasure : Poetic Erotica by Women
- Publication Name
- All We Know of Pleasure
- Title
- All We Know of Pleasure
- Subtitle
- Poetic Erotica by Women
- Contributor
- Enid Shomer (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780932112972
- ISBN
- 9780932112972
- Publisher
- Carolina Wren Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 10/01/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Topic
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 8.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines erotic poetry. For what is more intriguing, more satisfying than strong, self-assured writing? This groundbreaking anthology includes the most popular women writers -- among them Sharon Olds, Elizabeth Alexander, Anne Sexton, Dorianne Laux, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Glück. These poets fully demonstrate that, far from being prurient, the erotic can permeate even the most mundane aspects of life, from reading a book to buying clothes. At the same time, the collection affirms the enormous meaningfulness of poetry -- its ability to express the inexpressible and to illuminate the most private and intimate of human experiences. The poets included here represent different ethnicities, geographies, social classes, and sexual preferences. The only characteristic they share is that they are women writing about sex.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Carolina Wren Press
ISBN-10
0932112978
ISBN-13
9780932112972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242720031
Product Key Features
Book Title
All We Know of Pleasure : Poetic Erotica by Women
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn6110.E65a45 2018
Reviews
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan "I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night-- like a lover who wants to take her time but can't. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom's shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open." Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family "It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." Apalachee Review, "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan "I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night-- like a lover who wants to take her time but can't. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom's shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open." Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family "It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." Apalachee Review, "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan "I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night-- like a lover who wants to take her time but can't. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom's shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open." Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family
Table of Content
ALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE: Poetic Erotica by Women Edited and with an Introduction by Enid Shomer I. THE DISCOVERY OF SEX Woman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN In Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEU She Lays, MOLLY PEACOCK Practicing, MARIE HOWE Corinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURT At Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDER First Sex, SHARON OLDS Stairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKY The Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDS Bar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGAN Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCK Fast Gas, DORIANNE LAUX My Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTON The 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ''72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES "What Do Women Want?", KIM ADDONIZIO Navy, BARBARA O''DAIR Preference, BETH GYLYS Your Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNI Your Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ Fishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMER When Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTON China, DORIANNE LAUX The Source, SHARON OLDS The French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSON Breasts, MAXINE CHERNOFF Wet, MARGE PIERCY Dream Lover,AMY EDGINGTON Lullaby, MOLLY PEACOCK Orion''s Belt, BRENDA HILLMAN Attraction, ENID SHOMER Space Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSON The Shyness, SHARON OLDS Desire, DEIDRE POPE Skylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN Black Slip, TERRY WOLVERTON First Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIO The Lovers, DORIANNE LAUX Directions, KATHERINE RIEGEL The Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCER Desire, JANE HIRSHFIELD II. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINS Kissing Again, DORIANNE LAUX The Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENO The Knowing, SHARON OLDS The Purr, MOLLY PEACOCK In the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINO Trying, ADA LIMÓN Christ You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROS The Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERS Seamless Beauty, WENDY LEE Downward, ERICA JONG Everything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLER Eros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOV The Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Afternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSO Curtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMAN Capitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERG Buttons, CHERYL CLARKE green boy, KAI CHENG THOM Housebound, AMY GERSTLER More or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMA I Love It When, SHARON OLDS Floating Islands, ENID SHOMER Hold Back, ROBIN BECKER I Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSS In Celebration, ELLEN BASS Something Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROS On a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDE This Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANG Amazon Twins, OLGA BROUMAS The Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS 2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICH Blindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAIN I Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELD III. WHEN THIS OLD BODY Gate C22, ELLEN BASS What Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCK Kisses, KIM ADDONIZIO Your Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOS Wet, CAROLYN CREEDON Love Poem, AUDRE LORDE Phenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOU homage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTON Freed Up, WENDY BARKER To Endings, KATHERINE RIEGEL Marriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASS Four Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMAS the wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOM The animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCY Drowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓN Dulzura, SANDRA CISNEROS Ecstasy, SHARON OLDS After Love, MAXINE KUMIN Afterwards, DORIANNE LAUX Watching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMAN Of Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELD Integrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Searching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMAN Us, ANNE SEXTON Summer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINO Song of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMAN We Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKER mary, LUCILLE CLIFTON The Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCK Foreshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERG The Return, MOLLY PEACOCK The Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONG Making Love to You When You''re Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Feasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBER God/Love Poem, LENORE KANDEL Doomsday, MAURYA SIMON Notes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRA autopsky, KAI CHENG THOM Untitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEY January Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZ There''s Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK
Lccn
2018-951880
Dewey Decimal
808.81/93538
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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