fleural's review
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is an anthology of erotic poetry written by women and collected by Enid Shomer featuring some beautiful poems that cover a wide diversity of voice, wisdom, sensation and experience, ranging from the subtle and the spiritual to the more direct and bawdy in a wide range of expressive styles.
chexala's review
I liked the poems I read, it's just really rare for me to read all the way through a poetry collection.
kierradawn25's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I loved this. There are so many amazing poems in this collection. I know I will be coming back to this in the future.
iconoclastica's review
4.0
a collection full of wit and delightful details. good diversity of women in terms of sexuality, but little in the way of gender (no trans women, as far as I know)
afirepages's review
3.0
Poetic? yes. Erotic? yes. I love how this collection shows how different women's experiences, wants and preferences are when it comes to romance and sex. It was interesting. I also love many of the metaphors used, some poems were really clever and beautiful. My favorites from this collection are "Your Hands" and "Phenomenal Woman". But there were also poems that just didn't work for me and I even just found hilarious because of the word choices which, I think is just really a me thing. Overall, I still like this and would like to re-read some of the poems in the future.
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