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Conceptions
Guernica Editions, Spring 1992
2nd edition
48 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9780920717493
ISBN10: 0920717497
English
$15.00 Canada, $15.00 US
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First published in hardcover by Guernica in 1980 (as the third volume in the Essential Poets Series), Conceptions presents a bold and erotic female sexuality at a time when such presentations were considered uncouth.
my breast want you/ so intensely/ they lift my body skyward/ nipples burning like suns
The most spectacular aspect of the poems in Conceptions is their ripe and warm sensuality. Jane Dick writes of the body, not symbolically, but as flesh and need, speaking simply of desire in a clear, uncluttered voice ... Conceptions is bursting with a female sensuality that stresses the poet's pleasure in her womanliness and demonstrates the power of female eroticism, a theme too often ignored in women's poetry.
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