Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women

by Laura Chester (Editor)

Chester has collected poetry, short fiction and excerpts from longer works by some of the foremost women writing today--all of which exhibit the trend of stronger sensual writing in myriad variations.

Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Erotica

330 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1988

About the author

Laura Chester has published many volumes of poetry, prose and non-fiction. Most recently, "Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship," was made available from Indiana University Press, and a selection of prose-poems, "Sparks," was published by The Figures. Both books include extensive photographs by Donna DeMari. Station Hill Press released an updated version of "Lupus Novice," an account of Chester’s personal struggle and breakthrough with the auto-immune disease SLE, while Black Sparrow Press, published three of Chester’s early books of fiction. Chester has edited four important literary anthologies, including Deep Down and The Unmade Bed. She is currently completing a fifth, "Eros & Equus," a passion for the horse. Having grown up in Wisconsin, lived in Albuquerque, Paris, and Berkeley, she now travels between Patagonia, Arizona and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Sheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not exactly erotica, but very evocative exerpts from poems/novels/memoirs etc by women. Hot.

[Keith Miller]

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women by Laura Chester (1989)

[Lisa sypher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Women poets on love.

[Mills College Library]

Fiction D3118 1989