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Enid Shomer
Born
in Washington, D.C., The United States
February 02, 1944
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The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
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2012
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13 editions
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All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women
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2018
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2 editions
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Tourist Season
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2007
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4 editions
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Imaginary Men
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published
1993
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2 editions
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Stalking the Florida Panther
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1987
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Shoreless
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Black Drum
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published
1997
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2 editions
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Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
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2001
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Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 3: Three Chapbooks in a Single Volume
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The startle effect: Poems
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1983
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“Attraction
The whites of his eyes
pull me like moons.
He smiles. I believe
his face. Already
my body slips down in the chair:
I recline on my side,
offering peeled grapes.
I can taste his tongue
in my mouth
whenever he speaks.
I suspect he lies.
But my body oils itself loose.
When he gets up to fix a drink
my legs like derricks
hoist me off the seat.
I am thirsty, it seams.
Already I see the seduction
far off in the distance
like a large tree
dwarfed by a rise
in the road.
I put away objections
as quietly as quilts.
Already I explain to myself
how marriages are broken--
accidentally, like arms or legs.”
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The whites of his eyes
pull me like moons.
He smiles. I believe
his face. Already
my body slips down in the chair:
I recline on my side,
offering peeled grapes.
I can taste his tongue
in my mouth
whenever he speaks.
I suspect he lies.
But my body oils itself loose.
When he gets up to fix a drink
my legs like derricks
hoist me off the seat.
I am thirsty, it seams.
Already I see the seduction
far off in the distance
like a large tree
dwarfed by a rise
in the road.
I put away objections
as quietly as quilts.
Already I explain to myself
how marriages are broken--
accidentally, like arms or legs.”
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“How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed an amalgam of oddities and borrowings. She felt with conviction what she'd written home more than once--that Egypt would be an exquisite country if not for the Egyptians who lived there.”
― The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
― The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
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