{"product_id":"melting-in-your-mouth-the-early-work-paperback","title":"Melting in Your Mouth: The Early Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChocolate Waters\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best of Chocolate Waters' poetry finds its home in \u003ci\u003eMelting in Your Mouth: The Early Work of Chocolate Waters\u003c\/i\u003e. During the Women's Liberation Movement, Waters traveled around the United States to share her erotic, angry, and feminine poems, gathering throngs of lesbian admirers. Waters was a modern-day lesbian-feminist bard performing her poems with theatrical flair. Waters' poems grapple with gender norms, sexual harassment, and hetero-patriarchal publishing expressing the rage that comes with experiencing the second-class citizenry of womanhood. Even more radical, Waters' writes of lesbian intimacy and sex, calling attention to nuances of family and belonging in the context of her identity as a lesbian. \u003ci\u003eMelting in Your Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasury of Waters' early work. As witness to and participation in Gay Liberation and the Women's Liberation Movement of the seventies and eighties, Waters' poems also witness a genealogy of living and laughing authentically against all odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over four decades. Her most recent collections are \u003ci\u003eMuddying the Holy Waters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethe woman who wouldn't shake hands.\u003c\/i\u003e Waters was a founder of the feminist newspaper, \u003ci\u003eBig Mama Rag, \u003c\/i\u003e published in Denver, Colorado from 1972-1982, and a pioneer in the art of performance poetry. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353526518009,"sku":"9781944981716","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/49MOpWYjfC9781944981716.webp?v=1769825090","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/melting-in-your-mouth-the-early-work-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}