How Poetry Saved My Life

✍ Scribed by Dawn, Amber

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lambda Award winner Amber Dawn’s sophomore book reveals a poignant and personal landscapethe terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir told in prose and poetry offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author’s experience, from hustling the streets of Vancouver in the mid-90s to her present life as an outspoken feminist storyteller.

✦ Table of Contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• INTRODUCTION

• OUTSIDE

-- ORAL TRADITION
-- BIKINI KILL LYRICS
-- MELHOS PLACE
-- WHAT DO DREAMS ABOUT FLYING MEAN?
-- SEX WORKER’S FEET
-- CHEVRON RESTROOM 1212 EAST HASTINGS
-- BEFORE I FOUND A LESBIAN FEMINIST DOCTOR
-- 1999
-- GHETTO FEMINISM
-- HOW POETRY SAVED MY LIFE

• INSIDE

-- BUT I’M IN COLLEGE
-- GLOSSY
-- WHAT’S MY MOTHER FING NAME
-- HEY F FACE
-- DREAM MAKEOVER
-- SENSUAL BLISS MASSAGE & MORE
-- YOU ARE HERE (A MAP)
-- HOW TO BURY OUR DEAD
-- SCULPTED FROM LIGHT
-- MISSING CHILDREN
-- HOW I GOT MY TATTOO
-- LYING IS THE WORK

• INWARD

-- THERE ARE THE ROMANCES THAT STICK
-- THE ONE THING THAT COULD HAVE KEPT ME IN FORT ERIE, ONTARIO
-- TO ALL THE BUTCHES I LOVED BETWEEN 1995 AND 2005: AN OPEN LETTER ABOUT SELLING SEX, SELLING OUT, AND SOLDIERING ON
-- … AND WE DID
-- SELF-ADDRESSED POSTCARDS

• PUBLICATION CREDITS