From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind [Paperback]

Susannah Indigo (Editor), Brian Peters (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 2001

From porn to poetry, with voyeuristic cats, rivers of butterflies, symbols for intensity, and the details of how to suck, Clean Sheets wraps you in heat, laughter, sex, and truth until the image of taking a rainy day guided tour of the vulva seems likes the best idea you could possibly have.

With hot new stories from popular writers like Susannah Indigo, Bill Noble, and William Dean, along with the best of Clean Sheets from Mary Anne Mohanraj, Heather Corrina, Jane Duvall, David Steinberg, Dorianne Laux, Jamie Joy Gatto, Helena Settimana and dozens more, this joyful celebration of erotic stories, essays, how-to's, poetry, and a woman being tongued to orgasm while reciting the names of the North American capital cities, will be sure to delight, inform, arouse, and surprise.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Authenticity is the keyword to this anthology...with excellent essays tucked into the midst of hot stories and sexy poems. -- Libido Magazine

Indigo serves up a finale reminiscent of Sheherazade, if she authored "The Story of O"... at turns edgy and tender. -- Erotica Readers Association

The steamy contents...will leave whispers of sweat tracing trails across a sunburn's worth of flushed and blushing skin. -- Poems Niederngasse

This fantastic collection offers a great selection of the work that has made CleanSheets.com the standard for online erotica. -- Good Vibrations

About the Author

Clean Sheets Magazine is published weekly on the Web.

Product Details

• Paperback: 253 pages
• Publisher: Samba Mountain Pr (November 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971662304
• ISBN-13: 978-0971662308
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,270,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy, literate, lovely, January 22, 2002

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M. Anderson (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind (Paperback)

I don't usually write reviews, but this is the loveliest of books, so lovely that I'm keeping it out on my coffee table for conversation starters. It looks so "dirty" but it's so literary and interesting. There's not a story or poem in here that isn't wonderful, and the humor is good too. I leave it out so that people can pick it up and turn to any page and be surprised, and always interested. Stories like "River of Butterflies", "Blue in Cuba", and "Grady's Bar & Grille" are just amazing and original. Excellent book.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories, January 8, 2002

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John Kayson (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind (Paperback)

These stories are great - "Tell Me A Story", "The Symbol For Intensity", "The Secrets of Humphrey Milquer" - better than most erotica I read. I like the mix of humor and information and sex in the book, and I quite liked the writing about "What's Abstinence Got To Do with It?" about teaching kids well. An excellent book, and great for reading on the train.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading, January 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind (Paperback)

This is an excellent anthology, with well-written stories, sexy poems, and funny essays. It's probably the best erotic collection I've read in ages -- thoughtful, soulful, hot where it needs to be, but overall the quality of it comes across like high-lit, not throw-away smut, or sloppy like some of the "best of" books have been lately.