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Aug 03, 2010
Vicky
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it was amazing
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I think it was Justin who told me that reading this book made him want to scream, and at the time, I was only familiar with two books of Audre Lorde's poetry, so I didn't know that her prose could punch like this. Not that I was not expecting it, but maybe I was limiting in my image of her as a poet. It's not so much that this "biomythography" punches, but it builds the heat up in your body as you read, which gives you the kind of energy necessary to do something because you could die your death
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In high school I read this book for some type of book report...it involved creating a board game to show facts about the book. I paraded into class with my big lesbian board game and it was...strange...but none of that should take away from the fact that this is a wonderful, moving, fascinating book.
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