Keep Her in Your Mouth

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Keep Her In Your Mouth, Steph Castor’s 2nd full-length poetry collection is a series of snapshots from a different kind of love poet. Retracing the past year in the life of a self-proclaimed bonne vivante, KHIYM is a mediation on food, sex, travel, and relationships—a reminder to stay present, have a hunger for new experiences, lean into fear, have an unabashed lust for food, embrace adventure in intimacy, and hold onto those rare folks of pure gold. Similar to I Love You Is Back by Derrick C. Brown, The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson, and If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird

ISBN-13: 978-1-7345158-2-4

82 pp.

Cover design by Carolyn Brandt

Keep Her In Your Mouth, Steph Castor’s 2nd full-length poetry collection is a series of snapshots from a different kind of love poet. Retracing the past year in the life of a self-proclaimed bonne vivante, KHIYM is a mediation on food, sex, travel, and relationships—a reminder to stay present, have a hunger for new experiences, lean into fear, have an unabashed lust for food, embrace adventure in intimacy, and hold onto those rare folks of pure gold. Similar to I Love You Is Back by Derrick C. Brown, The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson, and If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird

ISBN-13: 978-1-7345158-2-4

82 pp.

Cover design by Carolyn Brandt

About the Author

Steph Castor is a writer and poet of two collections, Keep Her in Your Mouth (Thirty West Publishing, 2020) and Bedroom Music (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019) as well as an open-minded musician, baker, photographer, cat parent, daughter, doodler, and other (usually) adventurous characters. When she’s not enjoying late-night living room band practice with Vigil and Thieves or kneading a scratch sweet dough, or cuddling with Nosferatu the cat, Castor spends her time educating queer/femme/non-binary youth about the local music scene and ongoing ways to smash the patriarchy through performance, civic engagement, and poetry. Past work can be found in beloved music outlets including Guitar Girl Magazine, Guitar World, Revolver Magazine, Tattoo.com, Outburn Magazine and many more.

Reviews

Steph Castor’s words are a lit fuse burning towards I love you. Truth bombs explode in the heart of the reader, explosions from the inside—fireworks. Each poem is an organized display of epiphany ignited by tenderness. When you love this hard, the only collateral damage worth collecting is beauty, light, and acceptance."

—Huascar Medina, former Kansas Poet Laureate and author of Un Mango Grows in Kansas

"With imagistic precision and a fresh voice, Keep Her in Your Mouth distills the sweetness of young love with the wisdom of an old soul. Castor brings lightness to the love poem, even when things get intense. These pieces read like songs, gently encouraging you to self-soothe by singing along with them."

—Kim Vodicka, author of The Elvis Machine & Dear Ted

"A nostalgically romantic collection of all-encompassing love from the light to dark. It takes you on an emotional ride and relates to memories of that innocent, fully heart-open new love that brings so much excitement and a thirst for more."

—Diana Rein, actor, and Blues musician in Queen of the Castle