The leading poem of the book insists upon this connection: A woman reading "licks her finger, little flick / of tongue and fingertip" to turn the page, and in this moment, an
erotic possibility surges.
Nowhere in Lorde's oeuvre is her conceptualization of the
erotic more explicit--although perhaps not the most transparent--than in the conference paper she first delivered in 1978, which would become enshrined as "Uses of the
Erotic: The
Erotic as Power" in her now near canonical collection of essays and speeches Sister Outsider.
That the
erotic clay plaques were found in temples, graves and private homes makes it difficult to generalize about their intended use, but is testament to their popularity.
The
Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination.
Between The Sheets evenings will include a brief history of erotica, an
erotic book reading and chance to discuss both the reading and writing of
erotic novels, which is now big business.
Chapter 1, "Echoes," attempts to convince the reader that Wagner "was the first lo develop a detailed musical language that succeeded in extended representations of
erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of love" (p.
And so Wagner and the
Erotic Impulse sets out to combat an apparent scholarly unwillingness to confront the
erotic in Wagner's operas.
Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, Burlington (VT): Ashgate, 2010.
Henry Spiller,
Erotic triangles: Sundanese dance and masculinity in West Java.
Rituals, poems and objects revealing the peculiarities of the Bulgarian
erotic life have been gathered in a new encyclopedia.
The Eugene Poetry Slam presents "Sex Slam: A Celebration of
Erotic Poetry" on Saturday at Tsunami Books.
Leading sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari's private collection of
erotic objects of art, which was recently exhibited in the city during the launch of his book Erotica -- The Art of Loving , got the usual conservative city talking about the
erotic.
I flicked through and found many of the pictures disgusting - yet
erotic. Am I odd to get a kick from seeing other women?
SEX and the City may have fuelled a nation's passion for Manolo Blahniks but has it also paved the way for
erotic stories to become must-have beach reads this summer?
