How to Undress a Cop
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558853014 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"There will always be room on the shelf for 'How To' guides of this nature.""Full of hard-edged description and fast-flowing narratives, Sarah Cortez's debut How to Undress a Cop is by turns erotic, tender, and gritty.""An entrancing literary quickie that leaves you panting for more."
And all the fifty poems collected here display her many facets: the street smarts and cool analytic eye of a law-enforcement officer, the unique sensibility and bilingual vocabulary of a proud Mexican American, the linguistic dexterity of a Latin teacher, and the frank sensuality of a strong and spirited woman. Poetry. But then, it's not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police academy. HOW TO UNDRESS A COP is her debut collection and winner of the PEN Texas Literary Award for Poetry.. It's not every book of poetry that includes an Ode to Body Armor. Surveying fellow officers, friends, criminals, lovers, strangers, and family, Cortez has learned that a bulletproof vest may -- with luck -- protect the body, but protecting the heart from harm is a more mysterious affair. The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply, even explicitly, erotic
. Sarah Cortez holds degrees from Rice University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Houston. She is a winner of the PEN Texas Literary Award for Poetry. How to Undress a Cop is her first book. Her work has previously appeared in literary magazines, anthologies, and chapbooks
"Deliciously sinful" according to Holli Castillo. Sarah Cortez creates amazing visual images in a most unique topic, combining cops and sex in such a way you'll never view getting pulled over for a traffic violation in quite the same way again. Deliciously sinful, always sensual, the poetry takes us behind the badge and underneath the clothes of law enforcement, particularly i. Muy Caliente ! whoathis book is soooo hot, it could scorch your fingers.not many poets can mix erotica with police work and pull it off without making it seem schlockyin fact, i don't think i've ever read a book like thisrather than cloud her poems with ambiguities, she tell you straight up about what it's like being a cop, a woman, and a mex. Undress them they way you feel like undressing them Bernard M. Patten A close reading of the poems themselves shows that the poet is trying to conceal her shy and diffident personality by a kind of bravura that we might expect from a man. The result is an argument contrary to fact as well as a work of art. That said, I must admit that my respect for a work of art depends on my affection for it. I