Book Description
Forty-seven "lusty, loving" poems by a former nun, introduced by Robert Creeley with his poem "To a Big Sister". The collection ranges from the wit of the one line "To me upon deciding to leave the convent" and "What does paradise do for you?", the tender "Valentine's Day" and the poignant "I want a man," "What I hate" and "Germaine Greer" to the lusty "My man Blake says," "I wrote/he responded" and "You're like a tropical garden he wrote" and the slashing "A former to a present nun: reminder" and "In response to 'The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Mine Disaster (for Richard Brautigan and Pope Paul)'."

From the Publisher
As Michael McClure wrote, "Intelligent, witty, flowing--a real delight."

From the Author
"Somewhat on a lady lib locution, somewhat on desire, a little bit on me...but not entirely."

About the Author
Diane Christian was born in New York City on the last day of the Thirties. She took an MA and PhD at The Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation was on William Blake whom she credits with "wrestling her from the convent". She taught as both a sister and a secular at Nazareth University in Rochester, N.Y., before going to The State University of New York at Buffalo where she is an associate professor of English. She directed and appeared in Out of Order, a documentary film on ex-nuns funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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