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Lush landscapes.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 796 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lush landscapes.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Femme's Dictionary

By Carol Guess

Calyx Books

ISBN 0-934971-86-2

PB, $13.95, 77 pp.

This is a flammable letter / set to music only we can hear," Carol Guess writes in Femme's Dictionary. She's addressing a lover in the poem, but the metaphor carries for the book as a whole. With electric language and surprising imagery, these poems detail a landscape of lust, loss and high emotion.

Her poems assume an audience familiar with lesbian life--the poet reinvents and riffs on such old standards as "Which One of You Is the Man?" and "But You Two Girls Don't Have the Right Equipment." They also explore intimacy, family, the body, erotics, abuse, the meanings of "home" and the...

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