Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
A hymn to perversity, a lyric pledge to desire and risk, Glove Money pages through the canon to “seed its sugar in your dreams.”
In this joyful and irreverent exploration of the role of poet-as lover, Sophia Dahlin plays Sappho, O’Hara, romantics and troubadours, assembling a self seaworthy of romance. With humor and a light touch, Glove Money dismisses bioessentialist gatekeeping and expands the lesbian imaginary.
"Dahlin has a genius for voice... Dahlin’s speakers are “overheard” in the way a stage whisper is 'overheard,' or in the way of that certain brand of flirtation where one says something to a person beside the love object, hoping the beloved will know you’re speaking to or about them." —Lindsay Choi, The Poetry Project Newsletter
"Dahlin traverses sapphic lust-spaces and invisible geographies of yearning, positioning the reader within the force-of-the-yearn. Some of these invisible geographies trace the floral planes and seas Sappho might have seen, oceansides, triangles, the space between lovers on the phone; others are more grounded—New York, Oakland, the streets of Berkeley, “school,” the Midwest, the airport… and, most crucially, the lesbian potential for gender expansion." —Annulet, Maura Modeya
“"There is a lushness to these poems, monologues extended and compact, propelled and performative, offering gestures, agency and an urgency that feels more forceful, even grounded, through being spoken in hushed tones... Pay attention to Sophia Dahlin: this collection really is something glorious to behold." —Rob Mclennan Blog
"Dahlin’s poems are for our time, for our yucky and seductive mouths and lips, and we should all be stealing hours from our lords to revel in it. Somewhere between ancient pastoral tradition and the very present-tense erotic vocabulary of her life as a lover, Dahlin brings enormous musical sensuality, romantic intelligence, and impressive wit in these marvelous poems." —Brandon Brown, BOMB Magazine
“Sophia Dahlin's language and sweetly metered pacing perfectly anticipates my feelings, surprising me with how much earnestness I have preserved.” —Nora Treatbaby
“Glove Money celebrates friends and lovers, inventing a queer American pastoral whose Sapphic brilliance and subversion lie in just how easily the misbehaved and warmly weird go down.” —Jennifer Soong
“I find Sophia Dahlin’s poetry to be gentle yet subtly jarring. Her poems split images away from context, letting them add up to something fresh, snappy, delightful.” —Judy Grahn