I
believe that there are two kinds of love in this world:
inherited
and handmade. Yes, we inherit love
but my people, my people make love by hand.
From
“Handmade Love”
In
her first collection, Julie R. Enszer offers poems that are as unabashedly erotic as they are unabashedly
feminist. Whether responding to queer cultural icons, fantasizing about sex, or
mourning illness and loss, these poems are sweet and sultry, fierce and tender.
From
demonstrations on the streets to bedroom romps, these smart and sexy poems
interweave narrative and lyrical moments with the political and the sensuous.
Handmade
Love renders a world that
delights in the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and
tells queer life stories sublimely and generously.
Julie
R. Enszer has published poems in
Room of One’s Own, Long Shot, Feminist Studies, Bridges, So to Speak,
Suspect Thoughts, Windy City Times,
and many other journals. She has a MFA in poetry from the University of
Maryland and is working on her PhD in Women’s Studies.
HANDMADE LOVE
by Julie R. Enszer
Body Language 05
ISBN-13:
978-0-9794208-5-6
ISBN-10:
0-9794208-5-7
Poetry/Lesbian Studies
64 pages/perfect bound
Pub Date: 1 April 2010
$11.95
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