Questionnaire for Two Pussies [Q42P] by Extra Virgin Press

"’Questionnaire for Two Pussies’ is the second of five books examining South Florida’s cultural landscape and issues. Q42P is funded by an Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. This book comes from collaborating poets Maureen Seaton and Denise Duhamel’s long term conversations around feminism and their shared experiences. Virgin worked with painter Mary Malm to create a visual story paralleling the conversation in the poetry, to support this compelling feminist treatise. Tom Virgin printed all the images in conversation with Malm and the poets, bound and covered the book in a laser cut maple veneer wrapper." - Tom Virgin
 
In the middle of Q42P is a quote from Muriel Rukeyser, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” While the world may not have split open, the answers and words shared certainly show the world from a woman’s point of view. The questions begin with “When did you first realize you were a girl?” and continues with “Did you ever cry on a date because you were afraid?”
 
Maureen Therese Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023) was an America lesbian poet, memoirist, and professor of creative writing. She frequently collaborated with fellow poets such as Duhamel.
 
Denise Duhamel is a professor at Florida International University where she teaches creative writing and literature. She says of her collaboration with Maureen Seaton, “Something magical happens when we write - we find this third voice, someone who is neither Maureen nor I, and our ego sort of fades into the background. The poem matters, not either one of us."
 
Mary Malm: “Originally from Connecticut, Mary Malm has resided in Florida for most of her adult life. Educated at Pratt Institute and the University of Miami, earning both her BFA and MFA at that institution, she has been a practicing artist and educator for more than 30 years.” Virgin says of their collaboration, “Over the course of a few months of reading, my collaborator brought tangible connections between images and text in the manuscript. After a month of printing color proofs of plates, Mary’s images, a mixture of painted abstractions based in her relationship to the text, merged with each of our drawings, and brought me to my own connections in the text.”