The Beautiful: Collected Poems

"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."--"The San Francisco Bay Guardian" Before penning her contemporary classic "Valencia," Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first time. A "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2004 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist.