Femme’s Dictionary

Finalist, 2005 Lambda Literary Award

In this exquisite and powerful first collection of poetry, shortlisted for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, Carol Guess has blended musical language with social commentary. She documents women in love and women at war, both with themselves and with each other.

PRAISE

“In the jazz of catastrophe and disgrace, defiance and outrage, Carol Guess has discerned a Pure Sound, a sparkling and simple tone. And she lifts it, she lifts it up into anthem…. This book is a triumph.” —Donald Revell

“She writes about lesbian life, butch-femme relationships…in a way that lends one strength for the struggle and beauty of deep, genuine lesbian love.” —Gwendolyn Bikis, author of Cleo’s Gone and Your Loving Arms

“Femme’s Dictionary takes place in a lineage with Minnie Bruce Pratt’s We Say We Love Each Other, Chrystos’ In Her I Am, and Adrienne Rich’s sequence ‘Twenty-One Love Poems’! Guess is a new lesbian voice who fulfills her longing to ‘Kiss your thighs and call it making history!’ —Lambda Book Report