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"Nul poète ne fut heureux."

A story about a woman endlessly and painfully loving another woman who, not only cannot love her back, but is also quite manipulative and toxic. Although sometimes repetitive, Renée Vivien's writing is beautifully poetic.

Such beautiful poems, beautiful words!

I'm currently working on/writing my MA thesis based on Audre Lorde's sapphic poems, 'The reception of sapphic poetry in french-speaking countries with the example of Audre Lorde's works'; and I find her sapphic poetry beautiful, truly!! It feels so nice to read poetry about women loving women, women in love sharing a special moment, making love etc. Thank you Audre Lorde for writing a positive representation of woman sexuality and sapphic sex.

My favourite poems: "On a night of the full moon", "after a first book" and of course "Martha."