Thought Catalog, Poet Muse

From Sasha Nudel — Ukraine-born poet, speech-language pathologist, certified fitness trainer. She writes, she has said, for every woman who has been made to feel that her sensuality is too much, too raw, too honest — and who needs someone to say otherwise. Find her on Instagram.

"Poet Muse" is a collection of erotic and romantic poetry written unapologetically from the female gaze. Its territory is love and desire in their most specific, embodied, immediate forms: the charged space between two people, the way wanting lives in the body before it lives in language, the particular intelligence of a woman who knows exactly what she wants and finds poetry the only form precise enough to say it.