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- Page 24 and 25: 14 15 jade body. Wu Tsao 19th centu
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- Page 34 and 35: 24 26 solo around the world. Amelia
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- Page 40 and 41: 30 13 we go mad together. Robin Mor
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- Page 46 and 47: 36 1 roses and lavender. Gertrude J
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52 6 purple flowers. Purple flowers
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54 1 long leather boots. Photograph
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56 8 Bhadravati Boudicca Cowslip Sy
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58 16 memory and the goddess of lov
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60 22 lemon. In Australia lesbians
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62 1 sea. Bonnie Zimmerman’s lite
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64 11 casting off. See Lara Fergus.
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66 19 corals. “Silently we are ce
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68 25 molluscs. “I could tell //
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70 1 the land. In a very different
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72 5 the red Toyota. Four-wheel dri
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74 7 something older. Thadani in Mo
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76 1 lover to me. Sandy Jeffs in Po
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78 7 surly as any city gurl. See Su
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14 the martyrs the saints the angel
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82 1 tragedy. The word “tragedy
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7 led armies. Penthesileia, Boudicc
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86 17 H.D. The original Imagist, Hi
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88 21 cities in our minds. The art
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90 28 cyborgs. Pauline Hanson, a co
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92 37 wolves. Olga Broumas in her p
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94 1 "write, write or die". H.D. 19
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96 10 language invented by women. A
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98 19 saints. Suniti Namjoshi asks,
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100 1 between. Metaxu (Gr. µ) desc
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102 5 Uranian. The term Uranianism
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104 14 it’s in our bones our liga
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106 1 Carnivale. “Carnivale”. S
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108 9 Queen of Hearts. In a deck of
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110 16 webs. In aerials, a web is a
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Dialogues with Death Death, you hav
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120 iv I begin reading Almanac of t
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122 Wait a minute, I say, Tell me w
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124 xxiv Dad comes through the plas
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126 —I stand halfway between tear
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128 Ambitions Woollomooloo, the har
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130 ii Tumbarumba, mountains, an an
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132 Fragments A week after your dea
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134 The sea whispers secrets in my
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136 Sacrifice In ancient Mexico the
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138 my great-grandmother, my great-
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140 but no sound … I strain to he
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143 India Sutra 1 For Hugh David Ha
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145 Will her knees hold up Her wing
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147 First Sutra 16 Jan 2004, Mumbai
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149 drummers beat out a rhythm for
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151 his tune calling each passer-by
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153 19 Jan I walk to the workshop B
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155 Each knows the precarious exist
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157 o Scintl is in the midst of deb
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159 knees that can take sudden land
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161 green icing, an orange crease.
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163 A flying duck takes off on the
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165 24 Jan The colour of poverty is
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167 The fantasy of comfort confront
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169 Is that Satan staring down from
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171 in the service of Sappho sister
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173 eight hundred pairs of army iss
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175 has finally lifted, post-migrai
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177 30 Jan In Ponda they prepare fo
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179 Today could have been his ninet
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181 2 Feb The Catholic church has p
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183 Playing ocean and boat. I am a
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185 In defence she invents the stea
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187 And he is flying through the mo
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189 and golden dragons circle Chomo
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191 Or some truism of social invisi
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193 Scintl: The ragdoll knees are g
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195 This time I’m here as compani
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197 And here am I, Avis, with free
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199 o There’s a note in a file ab
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201 They will not say it, but it’
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203 And one for Sakhi and her resea
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205 creates the most original retai
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207 energy rising, serpentine Kunda
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209 the young man from Kashmir who
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213 Gravity Defied Life’s a dance
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215 Animal House How long is a day
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217 And so it was for that other a
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219 it was like that moment of unde
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221 running between the waters of t
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223 (a simple enough affair) and on
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225 Song to Purnurlulu I was born o
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227 white people white ceilings I l
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229 o My daughter and I are growing
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236 Biaggi, Cristina. 1994. Habitat
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238 Elgin, Suzette Haden. 2000. Nat
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240 —. 1993. “Diotima Speaks th
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242 Mavor, Elizabeth. 1973. The Lad
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244 Sei Shonagon. 1928. The Pillow
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246 Films Barrett, Shirley. 1996. L
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