Desire Returns for a Visit: Intimate Poems about Lesbian Love

"[Sandra de Helen's] book of poems is a great way to read a truthful, witty, poignant memoir about lesbian love." Judy Grahn, Ph.D., poet, writer, trailblazer

"I didn't need to read beyond the first line of the first poem in Sandra de Helen's collection Desire Returns to know I'd be loving this book: "Wearing makeup is as unnecessary as / painting crickets." What a fanciful imagination. What a cohesive, splendidly ordered body of work.

It's not often I find poems that speak so directly of an...