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A soaring triumph of self-acceptance, this book has swagger. I couldn’t help but smile as I turned the pages—each poem is a battle cry, a celebration, a testimony to the joys of lesbian living. It is a book to be devoured in one sitting, then returned to slowly, savoring each line. If you’ve ever loved a woman, this book is for you. —Lara Lillibridge, Author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home Rae Theodore’s chapbook of poems isn’t any instruction manual on how to sit—it is counsel on how to stand, sing, search, praise, prevail and endure. Theodore’s words and pointed metaphors are able to perform difficult maneuvering between the innately personal and plainly universal. How to Sit Like a Lesbian reveals how uniforms of appearance construct a persona, yet constrict, mislead and shift as we negotiate the topography of self-belief. External validation, gender, sexual identity are ultimately confines we must transcend in order to “hold the deed” to ourselves, reconciling what we can rescind with what owns us. —Karen Meadows, Author of almond, eyeless A taut, thoughtful collection laced with sly humor and a hard-won honesty that shimmers from every page. Rae Theodore’s poems will make you smile and break your heart, will echo within you long after you read them. —Martine Fournier Watson, Author of The Dream Peddler