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Naming the waves: contemporary lesbian poetry
Publisher
Crossing Press
Publication Date
©1989
Language
English
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From the Book
Lovesuit / Beth Allen
To the bone / Dorothy Allison
Not speaking, screaming / Dorothy Allison
Whoring away my imagination / Dorothy Allison
Little enough / Dorothy Allison
Blooming / Jane Barnes
How it starts / Jane Barnes
I want you / Jane Barnes
No / Jane Barnes
Homophobia / Jane Barnes
Naming the waves / Judith Barrington
Passing / Judith Barrington
Lesbian / Judith Barrington
A wish / Linda Bean
The sculptor hears the small birds / Robin Becker
A good education / Robin Becker
When friends leave / Robin Becker
On not being able to imagine the future / Robin Becker
Her name is Helen / Beth Brant
Not "out" to get her / Lorraine Bray
Little red riding hood / Olga Broumas
Landscape with next of kin / Olga Broumas
White trash girl / Roz Calvert
Get over / Roz Calvert
Marilyn / Roz Calvert
Crack corn / Roz Calvert
Waldorf Astoria / Roz Calvert
The recipe / Chaucer Cameron
girlfriends / Andrea Canaan
One fool to another / Chrystos
Sestina: winchell's donut house apostate / Jan Clausen
Lesbian: your image/how it is / Caroline Claxton
The refuge / Janna Davis
Drunken truths / Mary Dorcey
In the city of Boston / Mary Dorcey
Night / Mary Dorcey
America / Mary Dorcey
Blood relations / Mary Dorcey
I had a dream... / Elana Dykewomon
Even my eyes become mouths / Elana Dykewomon
Growing up / U.A. Fanthorpe
Half-term / U.A. Fanthrope
Father in the railway buffet / U.A. Fanthrope
From the third storey / U.A. Fanthorpe
There were three in bed / Eve Featherstone
Poem from Sears, Roebuck and Company, Brooklyn / Paula Finn
Welfare was my husband / Gundrun Fonfa
What I meant to say / Jane Frances
kikambala memories / Sharon Franklet
cunt poem / Sharon Franklet
don't stop / Sharon Franklet
Private puzzles / Kath Fraser
Haiku / Jean Freer
Conversation with the body / Bea Gates
Small world / Bea Gates
I wrap myself / Bea Gates
The other woman / Joan Gibbs
They lookfor the deepest green / Janice Gould
We exist / Janice Gould
Caves on a mountain / Janice Gould
The children who never departed / Janice Gould
The common woman (I, II, IV) / Judy Grahn
A woman is talking to death (part 4) / Judy Grahn
the meanings in the pattern / Judy Grahn
Paris and Helen / Judy Grahn
the good weef is both / Jud Grahn
mrs richie / Pamela Gray
Call this a life lived backwards / Caroline Griffin
Today is full of rain and wind... / Caroline Griffin
Inheritances / Marilyn Hacker
Rune of the Finland woman / Marilyn Hacker
Mother II / Marilyn Hacker
1973 / Marilyn Hacker
Psychic healing / Kate Hall
Smell of myself / Caroline Halliday
This space the tiger / Caroline Halliday
Fragment / Gillian Hanscombe
You like me / Gillian Hanscombe
Your contradiction / Debra Helme
Alone with music / J.P. Hollerith
Not a poet / Joy Howard
Which of us wears the trousers / Maria Jastrzebska
half poem / Maria Jastrzebska
Torba/ the bag / Maria Jastrzebska
Seeing the pope on TV / Maria Jastrzebska
Bilingual / Maria Jastrzebska
You came / Jenn
if I dig enough... / Jackie Kay
Kaddish / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Nagasaki Day: Los Alamos / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
The bogeywoman / Meg Kelly
Changes / Daisy Kempe
virgins and peaches / Tina Kendall
overdrawn / Tina Kendall
Lesbian strength / Kim
Spotting lesbian socks / Linda King
A few words in the mother tongue / Irena Klepfisz
Section from "From the Monkey House and Other Cages" / Irena Klepfisz
they did not build wings for them / Irena Klepfisz
Fradel Schtok / Irena Klepfisz
Short black hair / Jennifer Krebs
Kidnapping II / Jacqueline Lapidus
Translation / Joan Larkin
A thread / Joan Larkin
Rape / Joan Larkin
Origins / Joan Larkin
Genealogy / Joan Larkin
In this divorce / Rebecca Lewin
The lesbian divorce / Rebecca Lewin
Not that i am forever with child / Audre Lorde
Stations / Audre Lorde
Naming the stories / Audre Lorde
Every traveler has one vermont poem / Audre Lorde
Ethiopia / Audre Lorde
Call / Audre Lorde
Kitchen to rainforest / Maia
The long reach / Maia
A message to the collective / Caeia March
La esperanza / Judith McDaniel
Inheritance / Christian McEwen
Love poem / Christian McEwen
After she drowned / Christian McEwen
2 Wren street / Christian McEwen
Spuyten Duyvil / Honor Moore
Cleis / Honor Moore
Biped / Suniti Namjoshi
From the travels of Gulliver / Suniti Namjoshi
Poem for Jackie / Nina Newington
Womanslaughter / Pat Parker
Group / Pat Parker
For the straight folks who don't mind gays... / Pat Parker
there is a woman in this town / Pat Parker
legacy / Pat Parker
Waulking song: II / Minnie Bruce Pratt
Not a gun, not a knife / Minnie Bruce Pratt
Lesbians and mothers / Helen Ramsbottom
Your hair, and / Helen Ramsbottom
Blue / Helen Ramsbottom
In the wake of home / Adrienne Rich
North American time / Adrienne Rich
Tracking poems (a selection) / Adrienne Rich
A Dachau with a German lover / Jennifer Rose
Familial amnesia / Barbara Ruth
Some things about the politics of size / Sapphire
i guess if i was a sound... / Sapphire
A fare/well present / Susan Sherman
He touched me / Linda Smukler
Monkey boy / Linda Smukler
One nutmeg with its coat of mace / Kay Stirling
We feed ourselves / C. Linden Thorp
Not for you / C. Linden Thorp
The orgasm / C. Linden Throp
Sleeping with men / Lisa Vice
Who else you got? / Lisa Vice
Dorothy / Lisa Vice
Sisters / Lisa Vice
leaves and potatoes / Marg Yeo
the truth of it / Marg Yeo
she grew whole / Marg Yeo.
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