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Aphrodite Phoenix

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in Oceanside, NY, The United States

October 05

Website

http://www.aphroditephoenix.com

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Nonfiction, Self Help, Memoir

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August 2013

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The author's penname is an homage. She honors both the goddess of sexual love and the mythical bird that rose flying high and free from the ashes of chaos and destruction.

The archetypes are appropriate symbols of her sensual, nurturing nature and her tragic-turned-triumphant life experience.

Phoenix is a retiring sex worker who holds a B.A. in English. She's been an ardent author/advocate for sex workers' rights since the nineteen-nineties.
A New Yorker, she resides near the seashore, in Massachusetts.

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	Are They Bad Girls or Brilliant?: The Truths Behind the Fight for Independent Prostitutes' Rights 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 5 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
	And The Point of All this Agony is...? 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	This P--sy Grabs Back at Trump, the Religious Right AND Steinem 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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	A Woman Whose Calling is Men: The Memoirs of a Priestess -- Identified Prostitute 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 2 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
	A Woman Whose Calling is Men: Her Visions and Advocacies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 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
	A Woman Whose Calling Is Men: Her Affairs of the Heart - Book Three 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	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
	Prose and Lore: Memoir Stories About Sex Work (Issue 3) by Audacia Ray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aphrodite Phoenix (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Dragonfly (Contributor) 4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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

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AND THE POINT of ALL this Agony IS...?

My short story collection is meant to be a fiction-based concordance to the masterwork, "Are They Brilliant...." and yet it has a life of its own. It's chic lit, I guess, because it's written by a woman, and it's ten tales that showcase some critical aspects of the distinctly female experience.
But then again, a gentleman read it, and gave it an Amazon 5-star review. I was so happy to see that.... Read more of this blog post »

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Aphrodite Phoenix made a comment in the group Sex Workers' Rights, Human Rights — Demeaning or empowering? Which word defines your experience? topic " My experience as a sex worker has been empowering. My relationships with my clients have been mutually respectful, and almost always positive. I can r ...more "
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“I had lots of appointments, many places to go, and I needed a lot of rest; the art of constructively selling oneself requires much tender self-care”
― Aphrodite Phoenix, Are They Bad Girls or Brilliant?: The Truths Behind the Fight for Independent Prostitutes' Rights

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“How could she have gotten herself here? To this place where she stood by while the man she adored checked out things to share with his wife?
You knew what you were getting into.
But that wasn’t really true. One never knew, not entirely, not until in really deep. She screamed and seethed in raw silence. Damien came in then, and spooned her. He hadn’t a clue she was an impulse away from getting up, dressing, and leaving.
How shocked he would be, if she did that.
And he’d conclude that she wasn’t the well-matched true lover that he thought he had finally, at long last, discovered.
That thought ploughed a spike deeply through her. It gouged her so much that her breath stopped. It hurt her even more than did the wife. And she knew in that moment while he settled into bliss that she wasn’t going to leave, that leaving hadn’t had the slightest chance.”
― Aphrodite Phoenix, And The Point of All this Agony is...?

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read i No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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