How to Undress a Cop: Poems

Sarah Cortez creates amazing visual images in a most unique topic, combining cops and sex in such a way you'll never view getting pulled over for a traffic violation in quite the same way again. Deliciously sinful, always sensual, the poetry takes us behind the badge and underneath the clothes of law enforcement, particularly in the seductive Latin community. Not just erotic, the writer also takes into the minds and hearts... Read Full Review

Sarah Cortez is a poet, teacher, and cop in Houston, Texas. Her work is tough, sensual, and very sexual. Her job as a cop and her Latina heritage flavor her poems. This is a beautiful piece of work from a poet who has a lot of potential to be great. She has the flavor of those 'bad girl' poets (like Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, and their matriarch-Edna St. Vincent Millay). This is a strong collection, and I recommend it wholeheartedly... Read Full Review

whoa...this book is soooo hot, it could scorch your fingers....not many poets can mix erotica with police work and pull it off without making it seem schlocky...in fact, i don't think i've ever read a book like this...rather than cloud her poems with ambiguities, she tell you straight up about what it's like being a cop, a woman, and a mexican american in america, sometimes, all three at the same time...she can make a poem... Read Full Review

This work is a lifting of the curtain into the world of cops, for without officers of the law our civility in a society that teeters on the fence of good and evil would certainly deteriorate. Poet Cortez brings the dilemmas of the police to the forefront showing poetically the stresses endured by the men and women who devote their lives for mankind. She peers deep into the psyche of cops and through her artistic genius shares... Read Full Review

A close reading of the poems themselves shows that the poet is trying to conceal her shy and diffident personality by a kind of bravura that we might expect from a man. The result is an argument contrary to fact as well as a work of art. That said, I must admit that my respect for a work of art depends on my affection for it. In terms of form, tone, brevity, humor, sheer cleverness, beauty, wit, and efficiency, I like (there... Read Full Review