Pricksongs

Marilyn Coffey in her libidinous book PRICKSONGS recreates her youthful freedom from sexual taboos. Her steamy poems are as crazy, diverse, risque, and turbulent as The Sixties when she wrote them.he was slight ofbuild and/ liked/ tohave his ear bittenMake Love, Not War advised the slogan, and she did.‘memberwhen you strummed melike a bass violin the bath tub?Some funny, some passionate, some provocative,Coffey’s poems will sweep you back to a decadewhen gaudily painted Flower Power buses roamed the streets when mini skirts, bell-bottoms, and love beads adorned bodies when The Pill and sexual liberation were new.Named after her Pushcart Prize winning poem, Pricksongs is Coffey’s second poetry book. She has also published a biography, Mail-Order Kid; an essay collection, Great Plains Patchwork; and Marcella, the first novel written in English that used masturbation as part of its main theme. Coffey’s work has been read in Canada, England, Australia, Denmark, Japan and India.