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| Diesel Fuel: Passionate Poetry | 
 enlarge | Author: Pat Califia
Publisher: Masquerade Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1604743
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st Richard Kasak book ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1563335352
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781563335358
ASIN: 1563335352
Publication Date: May 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: GOOD Cover read crease, tight good 5x7 paperback by Califia.
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Pat Califia is well known as a sexual pioneer whose essays and fictions have encouraged lesbians to explore and discuss a wider range of erotic experience. In this book, her first volume of poetry, Califia gives voice--in the form of brief lyrics and more developed dramatic monologues--to the rebels and outlaws she has written about as a theorist. The women in these poems are tough, funny, often working class dykes who howl in anger, rage, and ecstasy about the power of sex, the sex of power, and not a few controversies between.
Product Description
An extraordinary volume from this renowned sexual pioneer. In this first collection of verse, the author of such best-sellingand infamousvolumes as Sensuous Magic and Macho Sluts, reveals herself to be a poet of unusual power and frankness. Not for the timid, Diesel Fuel is nonetheless one of this year's must-read explorations of underground culture.
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| Customer Reviews:
 very slinky and kind of scary at the same time August 27, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book slinks! I'm a 16 year old baby dyke from Madison, Wisconsin. It's got a lot of S/M stuff, which kind of put me off at first, cos I'm quite vanilla. Still, it's a great book and I read one poem over and over again. That would "Only You Can Kiss Like This." I shared it with my lover and she really liked it too. I love Califia's imagery. At first I"d only heard of her as a sex columnist in a lesbian magazine and I was happily surprised to hear she writes poetry as well.
 Diesel Fuel is true dyke poetry. August 9, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pat states in "Diesel Fuel," "If I have a vocation, it is to combat sexual shame by speaking as much truth as I know about what really happens in the realm of Eros, and Diesel Fuel is one more record of that calling."I am a dyke. As part of my coming out process, I sought out lesbian/dyke history. I wanted a record of others who were like me. I wanted to learn about them. I'm grateful for Pat's work, including "Diesel Dykes." As you read each poem, you can feel the soul of the woman she introduces you to. These poems are true dyke poetry. I'm proud to say I have been out for a number of years. I'm happy to report I had the opportunity to meet Pat Califia at a gathering in San Francisco. Enjoy "Diesel Fuel" and any other of her excellent, thought-provoking work. I devoured this book, cover to cover. I trust you will too.
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