

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a hugely satisfying collection edited by Enid Shomer and published by Carolina Wren Press. It’s
Below are some of Stella’s favorites, including story collections, novels, and a memoir or two that read like novels, there’s poetry as well.
If you are a ripe woman who writes erotica, or if you would like to try it, these books are wonderful sources for prompts. Open a favorite volume, copy a sentence to start you off, and keep writing your own thoughts for ten or twenty minutes.
There are more publications in recent years than in prior times, as erotic writing by older women becomes more prevalent. As a reader and as a creator, you are playing a part in this developing process. Keep it up!
Here you will find books about:
May you enjoy them all!
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a hugely satisfying collection edited by Enid Shomer and published by Carolina Wren Press. It’s
In this Taschen book (if you don’t know Benedikt Tashen’s outstanding publishing house, you should) Liz Earls talks of divorce, turning fifty and how these
I have been a fan of Sharon Olds‘ poetry ever since she spoke out about incest in her collection, The Dead and the Living (1983).
Yes, this is the same Gail Sheehy whose book Passages was such a hit. Here, Sheehy focuses in on women’s sexuality after midlife, using the same combination
The Atlas of Beauty is indeed an atlas, with women from all over the world shown in their environment, the garments they wear, and with
This visually stunning book includes photographs and quotes from women in from their sixties all the way to a hundred years of age. Some of