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10 best books like Love Cake (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha): The Lesbian Body, No Language Is Neutral, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, Wanting in Arabic, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Seasonal Velocities, The Beautiful: Collected Poems, Poetry as Survival, Not Vanishing

The Lesbian Body
AuthorMonique Wittig
You know how sometimes in a library when you've already gotten far too many books and your arms are full you reach a point of abandon and just throw anything on the pile? That's what was happening to me when I plucked The Lesbian Body on down from the shelf because, I figured, I like lesbians and I like bodies....
No Language Is Neutral
AuthorDionne Brand
ISBN0771016468
I have come to know something simple. Each sentence realised or dreamed jumps like a pulse with history and takes a side. What I say in any language is told in faultless knowledge of skin, in drunkenness and weeping, told as a woman without matches or tinder, not in words and in words and in words learned...
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
AuthorChing-In Chen
ISBN0896087948
"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops about another organizer’s...
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
AuthorIvan E. Coyote
ISBN1551523973
Lambda Literary Award finalist

American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue...
Wanting in Arabic
AuthorTrish Salah
ISBN1894770005
Poetry. Braiding theoretic concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity.WANTING IN ARABIC attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than...
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
AuthorT.C. Tolbert
ISBN1937658104
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections...
Seasonal Velocities
AuthorRyka Aoki
ISBN0985110503
Seasonal Velocities is like an intimate collage of Ryka Aoki's brain. It's made up of poems, memoir, essays, speeches, performance art, and when you step back from the individual pieces, it makes up the mind of one thoughtful and creative human being. Aoki is a survivor of many injustices, but her work...
The Beautiful: Collected Poems
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN0916397890
“Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published...
Poetry as Survival
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN0820324280
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
Not Vanishing
AuthorChrystos
ISBN0889740151
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
AuthorAmber Dawn
ISBN1551525003
As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...
Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams
AuthorJames O'Barr
ISBN0345417127
I was looking for the comic and I found this.

The names Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins caught my interest. They had both submitted poems, and the poems are the more better submissions. The stories. though, (and a little bit the art) come across as fan fiction, which is probably inevitable, but gets...
Ballad Divine: Bhagavad-Gita
AuthorDev Bhattacharyya
ISBN1495969835
Ballad-Divine brings back the Bhagavad-Gita in a very easy to read composition. It is an accurate reference of the original and observed facts and uses the same systemic method to divinity. Ballad-Divine is organized around the mainstays of Krishna's philosophy. Themes are repeated throughout...
Walking with Ghosts: Poems
AuthorQwo-Li Driskill
ISBN1844711137
This is a book of strong poems, it brings the reader through many emotions: anger, love, fear, sadness. He uses his words to educate, mourn, heal and take back power. He gives us his native language and traditions.

My favorite poem is his long one written after Reagan's death, "Eulogy for the...
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
AuthorRobert McRuer
ISBN0814757138
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
Why Things Burn
AuthorDaphne Gottlieb
ISBN1887128654
I'd like to list the pieces within this amazing collection by Daphne Gottlieb which, in my experience, mind and heart, felt strikingly resonant. I love the form and ferosity of her words. Here are some of the poems which, as I was reading them, felt as though they were being branded into my skin.

a...
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity
AuthorChloë Brushwood Rose
ISBN1551521261
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated...
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN1556592280
“Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”—Alice Walker

“Always urgent, inspiring, and demanding, Jordan’s work has left its indelible mark everywhere from Essence to The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and from theater...
Zaatardiva
AuthorSuheir Hammad
ISBN1892494671
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Well, I don't like this kind of poetry!
Surely there are some really good lines that I liked and quoted, but I didn't like most of the poems! They were kinda weak and prosaic - nothing special!.
Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
AuthorDel LaGrace Volcano
ISBN1846686644
"Intimate, audacious, and exploding with interpretive trajectories, these images reach beyond their edges to re-invision projects of queer visiual testimony."—Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley

Going beyond identity politics, Femmes of Power is a photographic...
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