This selection contains prize-winning lesbian love poetry that spans more than four decades of the feminist and queer liberation movements. As Schavrien reminds us in her Foreward "We lovers were liberating women one orgasm at a time."

The poems are both sophisticated and passionate. There is even a cycle unfurling the drama of a menage a trois. Schavrien's vivid precision manifests not just in her virtuoso performance of complex poetic forms, like the sestina, but also in her microscopic portrayal of intimacy: "lavishly scroll her, reel her in/ roll her out to the tip of the...