I strongly recommend reading Daphne Gottlieb's "Why Things Burn." Gottlieb has a way of disturbing you while turning you on at the same time. "Why Things Burn" doesn't feel as strong a collection as her more recent book, "Kissing Dead Girls." "Why Things Burn" is a collection of jumbled topics, which is fine - and actually pretty common for a book of poetry. And "Why Things Burn" has more traditional forms of poetry, while (some) readers might find the lengthy prose in "Dead Girls" to be lacking the "poetry" that they were looking for. Gottlieb is bold and in your face, which has been a much needed relief from the women poets I have been reading lately. She doesn't "dainty" around any topic. If you pick up this book, I recommend watching some online archived footage of her reading. She is known as a slam poet, and hearing her read her own work with give you a good feel for her voice.