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"In Badlands, an alternate world is created for the feminine to express itself. Eve, evil mothers, mythic figures, vampires and women looking for trouble/looking to be born/looking to give birth all inhabit this surreal dark land. All get a chance to tell their stories and recount their dreams. Each poem explores a different aspect of the repressed feminine, whether it is an attraction to violence and degradation, a distaste for our children, repulsion with the birthing process, or world-destroying anger. Her verse is twisted and surreal, gorgeous and painful. She takes our hand and leads us on journey through the badlands where we are caressed, transformed, beaten and kissed. When we finish, we are bloodied and changed. For all women, and all those who wish to understand women, this book offers up all our secrets in a frightening and pretty package." -- Christine Hamm, author of The Animal Husband