The Macon Sex School

Poetry. Women's Studies. In the poems of THE MACON SEX SCHOOL, Marjorie Becker delivers a gendered syntax that arrives as desire and desire met, all in one gorgeous simultaneity. But resist the temptation to call these poems sly music; they do not exist to disarm. Rather, these super-articulate songs unspool and wind us up, stake claims, and reject bulls**t. They overturn courtesy by channeling it, fiercely. They free us, and they carry us along.--Dorothy Barresi