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	Chiaroscuro Kisses 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About The First Woman in Their Life by Nisa Donnelly (Editor), Linda Smuckler (Contributor), Mariana Romo-Carmona (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Can You Say We Are Not Related: an anthology of poems by Suzanne Sunshower (Editor), Abigail Barth, Sally R. Brunk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Chiaroscuro Kisses https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/eve...

I would like to thank Vancouver Poetry Group organizers (and the staff of Barnes & Noble where they meet) for inviting me to be the featured reader at their monthly reading series.

Copies of Chiaroscuro Kisses will be available for sale at Barnes & Noble. Autographs are optional.

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“I loved women the way I loved books. Ravenously, as fast and as many as I could lay my hands on. Reading indiscriminately in every genre and savoring my favorites again. Slowly.”
― G.L. Morrison, Chiaroscuro Kisses

tags: book, book-lovers, books, love, lovers, promiscuity, reading, sex, well-read

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“I loved women the way I loved books. Ravenously, as fast and as many as I could lay my hands on. Reading indiscriminately in every genre and savoring my favorites to read again. Slowly,”
― G.L. Morrison, Chiaroscuro Kisses

tags: books, love, promiscuity, reading, reading-books, sex, women

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“I wanted to eat them like poetry. I wanted to bite women and spit fire.”
― G.L. Morrison, Chiaroscuro Kisses

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

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