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"The lives women lead always cost. We pay with our flesh."
Tender is the Body is a raw exploration of womanhood. Alise Versella caresses the supple and delicate, eulogizes the sensual, and stokes the fires of feminine outrage all in equal measure.
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Alise Versella
Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Alise has always had a fondness for notebooks. Every trip to the drugstore with Grandpa resulted in the purchase of yet another Meade notebook. That infatuation with the crisp, clean pages of yet to be filled notebooks, and a voracious appetite for reading, grew into a desire to write poetry that would express what was in her heart. These poems are imaginative, inspirational, and thought provoking. High school and community colleges have awarded her with Teen Art Festival accolades and honor awards for creative writing two years in a row. People come and go out of our lives, but Alise believes they imprint something of themselves onto us. That impression leaves us to re-evaluate ourselves. Our reflections muddy for a moment and we must re-asses. People change us undoubtedly, but through her poems at least this young author will never lose herself.
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Tender is the Body - Alise Versella
Tender is the Body
Alise Versella
A picture containing logo Description automatically generatedQuerencia Press, LLC
Chicago Illinois
QUERENCIA PRESS
© Copyright 2023
Alise Versella
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First Published in 2023
Querencia Press, LLC
Chicago IL
Printed & Bound in the United States of America
Contents
Tarantata
An Orgasm Magnified
Playing Cards
The Steam from Underground Reminds Me of Sex
Tender Is the Body
Love Harder, Love Still
The Procession of the Year
Opulent Women, Praise Your Virtuosity
The Curve of the Hip Loved Candidly
A Spell to Love Again
Step Lightly Through This Grove
Your Fingertips on My Exposed Kneecap Is the Most Erotic Spot I Could Think Of In This Moment
Produce Aisle
Celtic Knot Ceremony Pantoum
A Woman Learns Small Bites as Politeness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Tarantata
In a dream
Black as plague death
Like menstrual blood dried under my nails
After the night
Spent pleasuring myself
I dance.
The Tarantella: A thunderstorm
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