Here for the first time is a collection of poignantly revealing and often breathlessly passionate love letters between women from all walks of life, written over the past 140 years, including intimate usings by such famous writers as Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, and tatiana de la tierra. 50+ full-color photos.
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This book is a beautiful object, a size held easily in the hand, with graphics and illustrations as telling as the words, exactly what the discerning book buyer has come to expect from Chronicle Books. Folklorist and vocalist for the now defunct band, Girls in the Nose, Kay Turner brings her smarts to this collection of missives from mostly not famous, but some very famous indeed, lesbians to their paramours. Turner introduces these billets-doux with an essay on the visibleness or hiddenness of the languages lesbians use with one another. This book would be a great gift to buy for a girlfriend or a girlfriend-you-hope-to-be.
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This brief, attractively produced volume is made up of love letters written by women to women over the past 150 years and dozens of collages by Turner and artist Sheri Tornatore. The letters are variously beautiful, banal, funny, angry, illiterate, arousing, explicit and coded. Though the bulk of them are from the 1980s and '90s written by and to unfamous lesbians, there is also the occasional letter to or from known names. Every one of the 62 letters offers something of interest, yet all are hampered by an almost complete lack of context. Notes about each letter and its correspondents are included at the back of the book; instead, they would have been far more useful at the foot of each page. Thus, some readers may miss the fact that a charming and ingratiating letter was written by the usually bullish Gertrude Stein to her longtime lover, Alice B. Toklas. Although the book's somewhat cluttered if imaginative design and organization hamper its potential effect, the end result is nevertheless a worthy volume.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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