[image description: the covers of Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes by Jane Eaton Hamilton, Pit Stop by Pat Parker, Poems Between Women by Emma Donoghue, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho edited by Anne Carson, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, The Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems by Clare Coss, In Her I Am by Chrystos, Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mysterious Acts by My People by Valerie Wetlaufer.]

Best Lesbian Poetry

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Bodymap

[image description: A graphic that reads Book Riot #RiotRecs. Below is the cover of Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and the review: I don’t read a lot of poetry, but it’s collections like this that make me realize I should correct that. Bodymap deals with race, sexuality, class, and disability, always handling with these topics as intersecting aspects of everyday life, not as abstract theories. Piepzna-Samarasinha plays with tone and form throughout, but it says grounded and accessible. I spent most of Bodymap impatient to be rereading it, because I know that I’m going to get more out of it every time. I read this as an ebook, but I’ll be buying a physical copy and probably at least one more copy to give away. This is the sort of poetry that punches you in the gut, which is exactly the best kind. — Danika Ellis]