Dear dainty delicious darling

Gertrude Stein—how we’ve been told you are obtuse, impossible, all but meaningless, when in fact you are loving, inventive, playful, sexual, flirtatious, silly. Why has it been easier for the world to imagine Gertrude as a stern remote genius than as a woman of brilliant mind and wit passionately in love with another woman? Wonder [...]

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Amazon in the land of oranges—Marcie Hershman

Making Love to Alice Marcie Hershman from Amazon Poetry, 1975 I imagine Gertrude making love to Alice her generous and wise mouth upon her breast her arms around hers the two bodies fitting together, strangely they are different and wonderfully they are together. Gertrude being warm and full and with Alice and Alice being warm [...]

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inside gertrude stein

inside gertrude stein by Lynn Emanuel Right now as I am talking to you and as you are being talked to, without letup, it is becoming clear that gertrude stein has hijacked me and that this feeling that you are having now as you read this, that this is what it feels like to be [...]

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