These Several Woman - White, Cristina Luisa

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Résumé :
This is a collection of poetry about love, desire, and memory. All those who have been in love, who have known passion and heartbreak, will find an echo of their own memories here. And if you are a woman in love with another woman, somewhere in these poems, you will recognize yourself. These Several Women captures the wonder and beauty experienced when we fall in love, and the ache that comes when love takes a turn we didn't expect and everything falls to pieces. The work is inspired by a belief that love is the lifeblood of our existence here on earth; these poems sing that anthem. The collection is divided into sections titled for cities I have lived in and the love discovered in those cities. I Knew records the suppression of love felt for another woman in the era before Stonewall. The Mighty Pen captures how much had changed when, one evening at a caf?, I cared not at all if everyone could see that I was wildly in love with the woman across the table from me. Strawberries is a playful bit of erotica and ironic humor. Kindness, Only Remembered records the moment when the first tinge of jealousy overtakes the intellectual attempt to be easy about your lover's other lover. And After Midnight is about the persistence of longing for a remembered lover, a grand passion.

Biographie:
Cristina Luisa White is the author of These Several Women: Love Poems, and Sex and Soul: A Memoir of Salvation. Her piece One Cup of Rice is included in the anthology Youth in Wartime: Recollections of World II. She is a published and produced playwright, and her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, Willawaw Journal, VoiceCatcher, and Gay Flash Fiction, among others. Her first book, authored as Cristina Ismael, was The Healing Environment, a pioneering work in the field of healing design. She writes, makes art, and tends a small garden in Oregon's Willamette Valley, where she lives with her life partner and innumerable books.