What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014

Elana Dykewomon's poetry bears witness to the lives of lesbians. She asks and demands that we be responsible and responsive to one another; that we bring care, compassion, accountability, and love in the proper proportions. These poems help us understand the contours of sexism, homophobia, racism, and antisemitism. They are poems that illuminate what we can ask from and offer one another.

Drawing on Dykewomon' s impressive body of poetry, What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2015 asse...