Dime Store Erotics

by Ann Townsend

Poetry. "Ann Townsend writes the romance of 'everyday' life in DIME STORE EROTICS but the exquisite act of her affection makes every minute a precipice, every detail an opening door not into the dime store but out into the spinning original dimensions of her lyric consciousness. She is an intoxicating poet." Carol Muske"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187885111X
• ISBN13: 9781878851116
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Silverfish Review Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

hopes for a second book

i own a copy of this book, and i had the pleasure of spending a week at a workshop taught by dr. townsend. this book never leaves my bag. my highest praise for a spectacular collection of poems and its lovely author.

Outstanding first-book of poetry.

Dime Store Erotics is a splendid book of poetry, by a real up-and-comer! It is lyrically rich but also riveting--familial, sexual, natural. The poems range from the experiences of motherhood to buying dime novels in a busstop store, from gardening to drunken revelries. In addition to the strong narratives, the poems are themselves extremely well-made, tight, formally coherent but flexible. Ann Townsend surely knows how to write!