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Heavenly Bodies, Paperback / softback Book

Heavenly Bodies Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism.

Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, and personal dramas of America in the 1960s.

From the sweetness of purloined blackberries to the bitter taste of pills, the ginger perfume of the Hawaiian Islands to the scream of the winter wind, Huntington's fearless and candid poems offer a feast for the senses that is at once mystical and earthy, cynical and surreal.

Echoing throughout are some of the most famous-and infamous-voices of the times: Joan Baez and Charles Manson, Frank Zappa and Betty Friedan.

Jinns and aliens beckon while cities burn and revolutionaries thunder for change.

At the center is the semiautobiographical Suzy Creamcheese, sensual and rebellious, both almighty and powerless in her sexuality.

Achingly tender yet brutally honest, Heavenly Bodies is an unflinching reflection on the most personal of physical and emotional journeys.

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