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The Beautiful: Collected Poems

by Michelle Tea · 2003

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"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."—The San Francisco Bay Guardian

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Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first time. A San Francisco ChronicleBest Book of 2004 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thislesbianlesbianMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisfeminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisSan FranciscoSan FranciscoMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 224 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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