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***BIO*** Lyn Lifshin's most recent prizewinning book,(Paterson poetry award)  BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, was published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997.  ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME will be published by Black Sparrow books published by David Godine in November 2003. (ORDER@GODINE.) Also, just published is A NEW FILM BY A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, March Street Press. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE , BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED.  Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies.  Her poem, "No More Apologizing," has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Sheets" was published Spring 2003. She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian and a new collection called THERE WERE DAYS, SO PERSEPHONE. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com
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BARBIE GETS INTO EROTICA AND PORN
by Lyn Lifshin
wants to change her
name to Cherry
bubbles or Tasty
Flakes, wants to
party, to learn
what turns men
on and how to
wiggle. She's sick
of her army clothes,
her nurse uniform, wants
a rhinestone g-string,
pasties that dissolve
in a mouth. She wants
to sprawl on velvet
or fur, hopes
someone can air brush
where her legs can
be pulled from her
torso. She wants to
pose in a split
beaver, not be
a split beaver, wants
to be with a
man who can keep
wood long, be her
lumberjack not
a plastic pretty
boy without even
a flea of a penis