Sex Talks to Girls chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids. Recasting herself in this memoir as “Molly Meek,” Maureen Seaton interprets the emergence of Molly’s identity in luxurious and very funny prose. Molly alternately finds herself in the surprising company of winos, swingers, and drag kings; in love with Jesus H. Christ and a butch named Mars; in charge of two children; writing stories that shrink painfully to poems without her permission; and incapable of figuring out how she landed in any of these predicaments. She is, by turns, a little saint, a Stepford wife, a bi-mom, and a femme with super powers. Her transformation—from near-nun to full-fledged sexual being, accidentally becoming conscious in the process and delighting in the spree—is the story of a life set on play and a woman heroically committed to seeing it through. Winner, Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Foundation Book Awards

Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Biographies & Memoirs

Seaton, Maureen

Community & Culture

University of Wisconsin Press

Maureen Seaton traces the emergence of her identity in quick, droll, often surprising sketches. She finds herself alternately in the company of winos, swingers, and drag kings; in love with Jesus H. Christ and a butch named Mars; in charge of two children (her own!); writing stories that shrink painfully to poems; and unable to reckon how she landed in any of these predicaments. In her passage from near-nun to suburban mom to woke woman, she shakes herself out of a sloshed stupor and delights in the spree.

By turns chic, romantic, sardonic, droll, seductive, and in your face, Maureen Seaton is a cornucopia of attitudes and styles, a street-smart, deeply talented woman who wryly contemplates the charades that the self and the world assume - and how hard it is to stay in focus the morning after. It gets very, very hot in Seaton's kitchen and in her poems. As this inventive and imaginative poet states, "Furious Cooking is a stew of accidents and incidents roiling across universes." Seaton creates curious and energetic juxtapositions; she revisits violence and assesses its damages. The poet/woman in the thick of this caldron instigates polarities and assumes the roles of inquisitor and heretic, perpetrator and child, painter and artifact, scientist and specimen. She careens circularly through the hypocrisies and atrocities of church and partner, established sanctioned realities, the seeming senseless death of loved ones in this life and long ago.

Furious Cooking (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University Of Iowa Press

A collection of poetry by Maureen Seaton.

Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen journeys from womb to fluorescence, dust mite to gargoyle, lakey depths to Florida sunshine, a dodgy trip made safer because the Beetle was reported to float if it careened off a bridge. The poems are a testimony—windows up, radio rowdy—to astonishing escapes and (non)leaky endings.

Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

With its striking new sequences of charmed mathematics and magical equations with their surreal violences and tragicomedic human predicaments, Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems spans two decades and seven previous poetry collections (five award-winning) by two-time “Lammy” recipient, Maureen Seaton. Language is key in Seaton’s poetry, called “radiantly precise” (Publishers Weekly) and “able to evoke the feeling of vast expanses of space and time, much like Borges in ‘The Library of Babel’” (Adam Miller). Poet Wang Ping praises the “dark matter” in Seaton’s work, “where everything expands and tricks, arriving at once and everywhere.” Marilyn Hacker writes: “Maureen Seaton's register is enormous; her verbal daring and wayfaring breathtaking.” This is twenty years of rich poetry to fall into and to trust. "What a large, fierce vision is documented here!” (Tom Andrews) Fibonacci Batman arrives on time and in style, giving hope in human imagination and evolution a healthy and engaging slap on the back.

Fibonacci Batman: New and Selected Poems (1991–2011)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Winner of the Capricorn Poetry Prize, this book is a melodic, bold, and unflinchingly honest collection of poems.

The Sea Among the Cupboards

New Rivers Press

"Tough, honest, vulnerable. The writing is flamboyant, swaying cheekily between grief and celebration."--Poetry Flash "Seaton tirelessly investigates her role as a white woman in black people's lives, particularly in the life of one black woman, whom she loves. By doing so, she adds to the necessary cargo of politics in poetry."--The Nation

Fear of Subways

Literary

The Eighth Mountain Press

To enrich readers' experience, the Contemporary Classics Poetry series prints the best of today's works in beautiful casebound editions. The four poets that start the series are emerging stars who brilliantly point the way in language and imagery for generations to come.

Little Ice Age (Contemporary Classics Poetry series)

Invisible Cities Press LLC

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Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Furious Cooking (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Fibonacci Batman: New and Selected Poems (1991–2011)

The Sea Among the Cupboards

Fear of Subways

Fear of Subways

Little Ice Age (Contemporary Classics Poetry series)