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Words Dance Collection

Here at Words Dance, we are so proud to call ourselves home to the book babies of so many talented, eloquent, soft-and-fierce-alike women (and the occasional man!). If you’re looking to collect something that’ll never lose its wonder, start here, start with these creatures of ink-stain and moonlight. Each title is clickable and will take you to a link where you can learn more about the book, read reviews/blurbs, and purchase if you just can’t help yourself (we hope you can’t). Dowry Meat - Heather Knox “Heather Knox’s Dowry Meat is a gorgeous, tough-as-nails debut that arrives on your doorstep hungry and full of dark news. There’s damage here, and obsession, and more haunted beauty in the wreckage of just about everything—relationships, apartment clutter, rough sex, the body, and of course the just-post apocalypse—than you or I could hope to find on our own.” – Jon Loomis Author of Vanitas Motel (winner of the FIELD prize) & The Pleasure Principle

Chloe - Kristina Haynes

“Chloe is brave and raw, adolescence mixed with salt. These poems are about how hungry we’ve been, how foolish, how lonely. Chloe is not quite girl nor woman, full of awkward bravery. Kristina is an electric voice that pulls Chloe apart page after page, her heartbreaks, her too many drinks, her romantic experiences of pleasure and pain. Chloe and Kristina make a perfect team to form an anthem for girls everywhere, an anthem that reassures us we deserve to take up space.” – Meggie Royer Author of Survival Songs & Healing Old Wounds with New Stitches

Belly of the Beast - Ashe Vernon

“The poems you are about to encounter are the fierce time capsules of girlhood, girded with sharp elbows, surprise kisses, the meanders of wanderlust. We need voices this strong, this true for the singing reminds us that we are not alone, that someone, somewhere is listening for the faint pulse that is our wish to be seen.” – RA Washington GuidetoKulchurCleveland.com Shaking the Trees - Azra Tabassum

“From the very first page Shaking the Trees meets you at the edge of the forest, extends a limb & seduces you into taking a walk through the dark & light of connection. Suddenly, like a gunshot in the very-near distance, you find yourself traipsing though a full-blown love story that you can’t find your way out of because the story is actually the landscape underneath your feet. It’s okay though, you won’t get lost– you won’t go hungry. Azra shakes every tree along the way so their fruit blankets the ground before you. She picks up pieces & hands them to you but not before she shows you how she can love you so gently it will feel like she’s unpeeling you carefully from yourself.” - Amanda Oaks

Sparklefat - Melissa May

“In a world where a woman is begged to be merely a body, Melissa gracefully and urgently reminds us that women also have big, loud, important mouths.” – Desireé Dallagiacomo Celebrated Slam Poet + Activist

What We Buried - Caitlyn Siehl

“This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn there digging. When you get close enough, she’ll lean in & whisper, Baby, buried things will surface no matter what, get to them before they get to you first.” - Amanda Oaks

Love and Other Small Wars - Donna-Marie Riley

“I began to feel unwelcome in your hands is one of several lines from Donna-Marie Riley’s first collection of poetry, Love and Other Small Wars, that reopened wounds Time should have mended long ago. I was 22 all over again, sad and disillusioned as I rounded a corner out of what I had hoped to be a lifelong relationship. How We Got Here helped me understand my surroundings while How to Be Alone: A Twelve Step Program encouraged me to heal, every line a strip of dressing tape carefully wrapped around my heart. When I was ready, I took inventory in My and found the courage to love again in Bed. Such was my experience, one I honestly did not expect.” - Bianca Stewart

What to Do After She Says No - Kris Ryan

“This skillfully designed 10-part poem explores what it’s like to ache for someone. This is the book you buy yourself or a friend when you are going through a breakup or a one-sided crush, it’s the perfect balance between aha, humor & heartbreak.” - Amanda Oaks

No Glass Allowed - Tammy Foster Brewer

“Tammy Foster Brewer is the type of poet who makes me wish I could write poetry instead of novels. From motherhood to love to work, Tammy’s poems highlight the extraordinary in the ordinary and leave the reader wondering how he did not notice what was underneath all along.” — NICOLE ROSS, author