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Overview
This highly regarded collection of prose and poetry on the nature of the erotic features work by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Adrienne Rich, and more than fifty other contemporary female authors.
This celebration of the erotic--both the emotional and sexual aspects--contains a mixture of prose and poetry written by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Marge Piercy, Tess Gallagher, Maxine Kumin and a number of others.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
In an effort to extol contemporary women's diverse sexuality without being pornographic, the editors of this anthology have made sex a drag. The poems, novel excerpts and short fictions cover a wide range of erotic experiences--gay, straight, solitary--enjoyed by protagonists of varied race, age and body type. The sex is oral, genital, rectal, even bestial--a bull, a porpoise and a cat are featured in separate stories. Licking occurs frequently, most often in California; otherwise the writing is mixed in both subject and quality; the best are pieces by Kageyama, Olds, Ginghofer, Laux, Brant, Luria-Sukenick; the worst are amateurish. The whole, meant to celebrate ``the inherent and life-affirming place of eros in women's lives,'' is as satisfying as a series of one-night stands. (Jan.)Booknews
A collection of mostly (entirely?) previously published short fiction and poetry. Good writing, generally, and pretty tame by today's standards. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 1, 1989
Publisher
New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1989 [i.e. 1990]
Pages
222
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780881845273