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Chocolate Waters

Melting in Your Mouth

The Early Work

Chocolate Waters

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English
Sinister Wisdom
15 October 2025
Poetry; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism
The best of Chocolate Waters' poetry finds its home in Melting in Your Mouth: The Early Work of Chocolate Waters. 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.

Melting in Your Mouth 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.
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Imprint:   Sinister Wisdom
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   276g
ISBN:   9781944981716
ISBN 10:   1944981713
Pages:   232
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Chocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over four decades. Her most recent collections are Muddying the Holy Waters and the woman who wouldn't shake hands. Waters was a founder of the feminist newspaper, Big Mama Rag, published in Denver, Colorado from 1972-1982, and a pioneer in the art of performance poetry. She lives in New York City.

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