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Pure Poetry #10 : Michelle Tea
“hey now tall girl
aren’t you bored
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Pure Poetry #31: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.
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Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn
Looking for a good book on feminism? How about 70 of them? We’ve compiled a list of some of the most influential, controversial and must-read feminist titles from the past 200+ years. That’s a lot of books! You should probably get started.
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Pure Poetry #5: Leonard Cohen
“It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I realized that Leonard Cohen was an accomplished poet, that his songs were poetry set to a soundtrack.”
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Pure Poetry #29: Sylvia Plath is Depressing
Once upon a time I hated Sylvia Plath. Now I don’t! How did this happen? The answers lie inside this post…
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Pure Poetry #23: NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Sex is Pure Poetry
“Oh, to be ready for it, unf*cked, ever-f*cked.”
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Pure Poetry Week Starts Now! With Pure Poetry Post #1: Def Jam
We have declared this week Autostraddle Pure Poetry Week, when we are going to talk about poets we like all the time! First up is T.S. Eliot. Just kidding it’s Def Jam.
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Pure Poetry #24: Charles Bukowski
I don’t want to write my essay, so here’s some Charles Bukowski poems.
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Pure Poetry #17: Adrienne Rich Came to Explore the Wreck
I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.
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Pure Poetry #13: Jack Spicer Breaks My Heart Into Small Pieces
“I think that anyone’s a fool to become a junkie or a poet… it’s the same kind of hook really, and it has the same withdrawal symptoms if you ever try it.”
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Pure Poetry #2: Eileen Myles
“Every time I read a new Eileen Myles book, I ended up carrying it on me for weeks. I think I’m going to end up with a good collection. I would never lose it.”
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Pure Poetry #14: Sady Doyle on the Great Poet Diane Di Prima
“This woman found the riskiest, weirdest thing to be, at any particular moment, and then she became it.”
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Pure Poetry #26: Lee Harwood
“I like his poetry because it’s kind of all over the place without being noisy about it.”
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Pure Poetry #11: Saul Williams
“Admittedly, as a 21-year-old middle-class queer Asian woman, I probably do not share that many experiences with Saul Williams, except for maybe being from New York and having a profound appreciation for women’s bodies.”
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Pure Poetry #15: Pablo Neruda
“Cómo logró su libertad la bicicleta abandonada?”
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Pure Poetry #22: William Carlos Williams and Beyond
This is just a post (mostly) about old white men. But it’s happy. It’s Autostraddle is Pure Poetry week and this is how we do it.
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Pure Poetry #20: Veronica Franco, the Courtesan
“Veronica Franco became an icon for women to leave the confines of the home and enter the world of men. Unfortunately, in those days the only real way to do so was to become a prostitute.”
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Pure Poetry #19: Rock WILK is a F*cking Experience
“Rock’s voice was more powerful than my desire for a fresh beer.”
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Pure Poetry #16: Vanessa Hidary, The Hebrew Mamita
‘Should I fiddle on a f*cking roof for you?’
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Eileen Myles on Being Female
“Speaking frankly as a lesbian I have to say that the salient fact about the danger zone I call home is the persistent experience of witnessing the quick revulsion of people who believe that because I love women I am a bottom feeder. I am desperately running towards what anyone in their right mind would be running away from. Which is femaleness, which is failure.”