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Anonymous: hi! so i love love love your blog and could you rec me some of your favourite lesbian poems? thank you !!!!

Thanks so much! To be honest, I don’t read a ton of poetry. My favourite lesbian poetry books have been Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review), If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne CarsonRiot Lung by Leah Horlick (review), Sisterhood by Julie R. Enszer (review) and When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade (review) (the first half. The second half I wasn’t as big a fan of), but they aren’t necessarily love poetry.

This Goodreads list of Best Lesbian Poetry might help, though!


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loveyoulikesalt:
“ “Love, Maybe” by Audre Lorde
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[image description: ““Love, Maybe” Always / in the middle / of our bloodiest battles / you lay down your arms / like flowering mines // to conquer me home. (1970)”]

loveyoulikesalt:

“Love, Maybe” by Audre Lorde

[image description: ““Love, Maybe” Always / in the middle / of our bloodiest battles / you lay down your arms / like flowering mines // to conquer me home. (1970)”]



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the urge to consume never leaves.
i’m learning to take my time
instead of swallowing you whole,
to resist projecting to the end of
fucking
so i can raid the cupboard
smoke a cigarette
and pass off into dreams
of sugar, dough, caffeine
light and sweat.

 

- Excerpt from “journal entry: qualification” by Cheryl Clarke, in Living as a Lesbian.


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and white people still do not see us.
They force us from sidewalks.
Mistake us for men.
Expect us to give up out seats to them on the bus.
Challenge us with their faces.
Are afraid of us in groups.
Thus the brutal one on one.
Like a TV news script, every transaction frustrates
rage. Hand in hand with me
you admonish
not to let them come between us
not to let them come between us on the street.
We are struck by war crazy men
recording their gunfire on stereo cassette decks.

 

- “we are everywhere” by Cheryl Clarke, in Living as a Lesbian.


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Nothing I wouldn’t do the woman I sleep with
when nobody satisfy me the way she do.

kiss her in public places
win the lottery
take her in the ass
in a train lavatory
sleep three in a single bed
have a baby
to keep her wanting me

 

- Excerpt from “nothing” by Cheryl Clarke, in Living as a Lesbian.


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I been in love
six times in the last six months
and ain’t done trying yet.

 

- Excerpt from “i come to the city” by Cheryl Clarke, in Living as a Lesbian.


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bookriot:

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]



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