What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014
By Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon’s poems are reminders not to take anything for granted: to listen to the messages embedded in others' silences, to look beneath the rubble of violence, and to value the pleasures of intimate loving. Presenting the poetry written over the past four decades, What Can I Ask is wise, passionate, and inspirational. I so value this work and always keep it close to my heart.”
--Irena Klepfisz, Author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue

Elana Dykewomon’s poetry bears witness to the lives of lesbians. She asks and demands that we be responsible and responsive to one another; that we bring care, compassion, accountability, and love in the proper proportions. These are poems that help us understand the contours of sexism, homophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism. And they are poems that illuminate what we can ask from and offer one another.

Drawing on Dykewomon’s impressive body of poetry, What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2015 assembles into a single volume poems from Dykewomon’s three published collections, They Will Know Me By My Teeth (Megaera Press, 1976), Fragments from Lesbos (Diaspora Distribution, 1981), and Nothing Will Be As Sweet as the Taste (Onlywomen Press, 1995), as well as a selection of newer, uncollected poems. Dykewomon continues asking questions and reaching for answers, demonstrating the power of poetry to comfort and enrage, inspire and arouse.

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More About Sinister Wisdom 96: What Can I Ask by Elana Dykewomon

Interview with Elana Dykewomon at Women and Words: http://womenwords.org/2015/04/17/interview-with-elana-dykewomon-plus-giv...
Review of Elana Dykewomon's What Can I Ask: New and Collected Poems 1975-2014 by Carolyn Gage: http://carolyngage.weebly.com/blog/elana-dykewomon-word
Review of Elana Dykewomon's What Can I Ask: New and Collected Poems 1975-2014 at Out in Print: https://outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/spring-poetry-roundup-ii/
Elana Dykewomon's What Can I Ask: New and Collected Poems 1975-2014 received an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival.