Sex and Soul Redux: A Memoir of Salvation
Sex and Soul Redux is the story of the author’s journey toward authenticity and a meaningful life. In her quest to reconcile body and soul, she sets out on a forbidden road that reveals itself to be a life-affirming path to salvation. Told that following her heart would condemn her to hell and damnation, Cristina listened to an inner voice, one attuned to “…my spiritual body and the canon of my bones.” That voice would guide her transition from good Catholic girl to an out and proud gay woman of faith.
“This is the kind of book that validates both our hopes and our fears, the kind of book we wait years to read.”
Larina Warnock, poet and author of Guitar Without Strings
“This is a book for everyone who feels obliged to choose between societal norms and authentic individuality or—as the author puts it in this penetrating memoir—”…whether I wanted to be fully alive, or settle for something less.”
Susan R. Harper, Librarian
“The first paragraph had me. Read it three times before I could go on. Cristina’s writing is poetry. My eyes and heart were opened.”
Marion Whitney, poet and author of My Poems
Print and eBook editions available at Amazon. The paperback is also available at Barnes & Noble and can be ordered through your local bookstore.
These Several Women: Love Poems is a collection of poetry about love, desire, and memory. All those who have been in love, who have known passion and heartbreak, will find an echo of their own memories here. And if you are a woman in love with another woman, somewhere in these poems, you will recognize yourself.
Print and ebook editions available at Amazon. Print editions are also available at Barnes & Noble and through your local bookstore.
“Cristina White’s poems…are hymns of honest gratitude for the memories of loves lost and the persistence of longing. In them, women who love women will surely recognize the sweet paradox of evanescent hope amidst her celebration of shining, small details.”
—Claire Goodman, Professor Media Arts, Long Island University
“Cristina White’s poems brings the love between two women seductively into focus. ‘Now there are no hours/nor minutes, nor seconds/only this moment when/we are silent/while our hearts speak.’ The very act of reading these rich poems opens us up to the deepest experience available on this planet—that of love.”
—Jade Rosina McCutcheon, Director, Scholar, and Author
“A beautifully written collection of poems, pulsing with an overarching lyrical rhythm. From the first quivering anticipation to graceful sensual discovery through to love’s abiding depth, these poems reflect the universal heartbeat of what it is to love and in loving, discover yourself. Whoever you love and share your life with, these poems will touch you with their honesty and beauty.”
—Terri Thomas, Performer, Voice-Actor, Writer
Sex and Soul: A Memoir of Salvation was the first publication from Letter Pen Press. It recounts the author’s struggle between the dictates of her religious upbringing and the call to be true to her own sense of self. 
“Ms. White…stands as a beacon for all who want authenticity and integration for ourselves and for the world we live in.”
—K. Brown, Teacher, Community College Adult Education
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