Pulse advocacy plus a systematic discussion and

plus a systematic discussion and interpretation of its central concepts from perfect happiness to playful uselessness

These poems will have the reader laughing one moment and crying the next

with commentary in English and Italian

sky opens like a door

by Charles Perrault

Pulse advocacy plus a systematic discussion and"From the first poem in Melissa Faduls remarkable Pulse, where a tattoo needle speaks of its shattering past during the Holocaust, to poems that express the way assault and lesbian desire commingled in memory, these poems are searing in their honesty about what it is to live fully in the truth of being a queer Jewish woman in America today. This is a brave book that risks everything to do as Adrienne Rich asserted: When a woman tells the truth, she is