The Victory of Sex & Metal

Book excerpt: From the feminist author of The Great Cosmic Goddess and The Blue Rental, here is poetry that looks without wincing, chronicles without hesitating, and that reveals "the psycho-political terrestrial reality we all now inhabit." Extraordinarily allusive and learned, drenched in the imagery of degradation and loss while boundless in poetic concept, and dead-serious throughout: Work of genius, vision, honesty, ruthlessness-and, more than perhaps, a bit of hope.