How Poetry Saved My Life

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Lambda Award winner Amber Dawn’s sophomore book reveals a poignant and personal landscapethe terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir told in prose and poetry offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author’s experience, from hustling the streets of Vancouver in the mid-90s to her present life as an outspoken feminist storyteller. - CONTENTS - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - INTRODUCTION - OUTSIDE -- ORAL TRADITION -- BIKINI KILL LYRICS -- MELHOS PLACE -- WHAT DO DREAMS ABOUT FLYING MEAN? -- SEX WORKER’S FEET -- CHEVRON RESTROOM 1212 EAST HASTINGS -- BEFORE I FOUND A LESBIAN FEMINIST DOCTOR -- 1999 -- GHETTO FEMINISM -- HOW POETRY SAVED MY LIFE - INSIDE -- BUT I’M IN COLLEGE -- GLOSSY -- WHAT’S MY MOTHER F***ING NAME -- HEY F*** FACE -- DREAM MAKEOVER -- SENSUAL BLISS MASSAGE & MORE -- YOU ARE HERE (A MAP) -- HOW TO BURY OUR DEAD -- SCULPTED FROM LIGHT -- MISSING CHILDREN -- HOW I GOT MY TATTOO -- LYING IS THE WORK - INWARD -- THERE ARE THE ROMANCES THAT STICK -- THE ONE THING THAT COULD HAVE KEPT ME IN FORT ERIE, ONTARIO -- TO ALL THE BUTCHES I LOVED BETWEEN 1995 AND 2005: AN OPEN LETTER ABOUT SELLING SEX, SELLING OUT, AND SOLDIERING ON -- … AND WE DID -- SELF-ADDRESSED POSTCARDS - PUBLICATION CREDITS