I was at Poets House for an event yesterday, and they have several shelves of books for sale for $5.00 each, so I bought a couple.
Louÿs, Pierre. The Songs of Bilitis. Translated by Alvah C. Bessie. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. 1926. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1988.
The word “Bilitis” on this book’s spine caught my eye because of the Daughters of Bilitis, the lesbian advocacy group founded in the 1950s. It turns out they were named after this book, which is supposedly a long-lost manuscript of lesbian erotica.
MacDonald, Tanis. Mobile: Poems. Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019.
I’ve never read any of MacDonald’s poetry, but I am quite familiar with her commentary on one of my favorite poets, Di Brandt, so I figured that this was a good chance to get introduced to MacDonald’s creative work.
Daniel Shank Cruz 