Pussy, poems about things you think are pornographic

What does “Pussy” mean?  On the playground, it means wimp; in the bedroom, it means female genitalia.  But to many feminists, and many women who ground their work in a sense of pride about the female body, “pussy” is a call to arms, a in-your-face riot-grrl exclamation about purely bad-ass female experience.  Maria Garcia Teutsch’s Pussy: Poems About Things You Think are Pornographic, uses the idea of the feminine “pussy” and the female self to sculpt carefully, wildly, delicately made poems that make being a woman and having a voice both a kind of resistance and kind of opening, a kind of violence, and a kind of seduction. With beautiful, strange and unique images, structures and language, Teutsch’s poems are mini-manifestos of feminine experience and feminine power.

Christine Hamm, author, Echo Park

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