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If you're looking for Moon, Spoon and June poetry, try another author. Waters is shockingly real in her open sexuality and alternative cultural lifestyle. If you're looking for wild and wonderful experience through the eyes of someone with the been-there Blues, try tasting Chocolate.
April 18, 2003
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Back then, in 1977, "Take Me Like a Photograph" was an exploration of a young poet's developing womanhood, of her blossoming lesbian discovery of self. Back then, it was also a history-making achievement'probably worth reading for that alone. But this is also a collection of poems. And these twenty-five year old poems are no less compelling today than they were when they were brand new, twenty-five years ago.
The title poem is an excellent example of the combination of poetry and personality that makes this work so appealing:
You have loved me for myself,
not a picture of me
someone else has taken
In these lines is a sophisticated awareness, a full working out of the sensibility of poet and personality, of art and the individual made one. The movement from 'for myself' to 'not a picture off me' is thrust gently forward into a satisfying and surprising place, as the next line continues, 'someone else has taken.' Just read it over:
You have loved me for myself,
not a picture of me
someone else has taken
And, of course, the line break, 'me / someone' sounds the delicate ear of a finely tuned poetic instrument and propels the senses into that refined place where poetry and personality are one.
I should have mentioned at the beginning that I had been told that "Take Me Like a Photograph" is a classic work of the Women's Movement. This description made me nervous. I was expecting propaganda and self-righteousness. I found, instead, art and humanity. I found a young woman, a young poet, a beautiful young heart laboring to uncover the art in her life and the life in her art. And Chocolate Waters, amazing soul that she is, is not reluctant to tell us what she finds:
I sprang / half-grown / from the / touch /
of your / first woman's /hands
and this:
I send my love beneath the ground /
beneath the longing earth /
my longing for this loving not to end
and this:
you touch me / and I / fall down.
and this:
Sweet Chocolate you are / mine and I am everything you want /
and would not ask from anyone
"Take Me Like a Photograph" is surrender and triumph. It is the vulnerability of youth. And the indestructibility of youth.
I urge you to take this book with you a few weeks wherever you go; let it take you places you have never been, lovely and heroic.
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I fell in love with the characters, and was very happy to see leading ladies everywhere!
It was also very nice to be able to have a quick look at old fashioned recipes, and understand the process of creating them.
Finally, this book has enough drama, love and tragedy for a movie... and Im very happy it became one, which, by the way is also very good, and captures the real essence of the book.
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Este es un libro muy divertido. Es una historia sobre el amor, la decepcion, la familia, las tradiciones y sobretodo... la cocina!
Me enamore de los personajes y me dio mucho gusto ver a mujeres protagonistas.
Ademas, fue muy interesante el leer sobre recetas antiguas y entender el proceso de creacion de diferentes alimentos.
Finalmente este es un libro con drama, amor y tragedia dignos de una pelicula...y me da mucho gusto que se haya hecho una tan buena, que en verdad capta la esencia del libro.
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