A groundbreaking anthology of well-known female poets that broadens traditional notions of erotic poetry.

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan

"All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan

"I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night- like a lover who wants to take her time but can't. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom's shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open." ?Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family

"It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ?Apalachee Review