Rachel Smith / Barbara Vesey (ed.): The Love That Dares

Letters of LGBTQ+ Love Friendship Through History. UK 2022, 258 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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ilex
A good love letter can speak across centuries, and reassure us that the agony and the ecstasy one might feel today have been shared by lovers long gone. In The Love That Dares , queer love speaks its name through a wonderful selection of surviving letters between lovers and friends, confidants and companions. - Alongside the more famous names ... Weiterlesen

Mary Jean Chan / Andrew McMillan (eds.): 100 Queer Poems

UK 2022, 175 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Vintage
Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, »100 Queer Poems« presents an electrifying range of writing from the 20th century to the present day. Questioning and redefining what we mean by a »queer« poem, you'll find inside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Black Unicorn

UK 1978, 127 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power. Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary - poems ... Weiterlesen

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. »Borderlands / La Frontera« remaps our understanding of what a »border« is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems

Centenary Edition. UK 2011, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Elizabeth Bishop's poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived and found her great passion in another woman, Lota de Macedo Soares - and move ... Weiterlesen

Anne Carson: If Not, Winter

Fragments of Sappho. UK 2003, 397 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Virago
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.

Audre Lorde: The Collected Poems

USA 1997, 489 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and most influential poets, representing the complete oeuvre of Audre Lorde's poetry. Lorde published nine volumes of poetry which, in her words, detail »a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inhabited«. Included here ... Weiterlesen