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Sleeping With the Artist 
by Susan Blanshard

A sensual memoir written in poetic prose by author of Sheetstone Memoir For A Lover.
In each chapter, she reveals her secrets as a virgin, a lover, a whore, the soothsayer, adulteress, the stranger he meets on a train and as a model who poses nude for a famous French artist. The opiate state of love between them seems bound beyond time and seemingly impossible to break. I have come to know the image as I draw her figure, the Artist said...in one pose familiar, found like a look in the distance, and yet in some form or contradiction a woman I do not remember her as a god and not god, stone and not stone, that hardness snapping off.
He answered that she could fill his head with dark images. From the silence, from the gray clouding his eyes, she knew the exact spot the images entered and he asked if she could tell him where the beautiful ones were.