Full name: Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

Author: Mary Lambert Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, Gay & Lesbian Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781250195906 9781250195890 125019590X 1250195896

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down--and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times. Similar books: The Chaos of Longing by K. Y. Robinson Not Vanishing by Chrystos Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman The collected poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara