Bimboland
powerHouse Books · Paperback · December 6, 2022
An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money from writer and poet Erin Taylor.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems hold desire and vulnerability beside sex work and socialist politics, with tenderness and bite.
- Themes
- Desire and vulnerability, Sex work and money, Socialist politics
- Pacing
- Fast
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An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money from writer and poet Erin Taylor. Erin Taylor’s Bimboland is an astute and confident debut, balancing, in their blistering and tender style, their life as a sex worker and socialist politics. The poems are full of desire and vulnerability, insight and calls to action, both personal and societal.
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You can get lost in the insatiable pace of their words and the way in which you feel, as they feel, “powerful yet somehow / nothing.”
Desire, Money, Power
These poems hold desire and vulnerability beside sex work and socialist politics, with tenderness and bite.
Come here for
- Poetry that brings personal feeling into conversation with social politics
- A voice moving between vulnerability and calls to action
Expect
- Blistering, tender writing with an insatiable pace
- A collection attentive to desire, money, and power
Where it sits
| Political & Protest Poetry | 90% |
|---|---|
| Love Poetry | 57% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- LGBTQ+ Poetry
- Love Poetry
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Erin Taylor
- Publisher
- powerHouse Books
- Published
- December 6, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Desire and vulnerability · Sex work and money · Socialist politics
- Reading lane
- LGBTQ+ Poetry