The Beautiful Author:Michelle Tea Michelle Tea ran away to San Francisco in the early 90s. There she found a home in open mic venues, and self-published a steady stream of very limited edition photocopied poetry chapbooks, which are available in a single volume for the first time in The Beautiful. Reflective themes of unrequited love and languor, hopes and heartbreak, prostituti... more »on and destitution fill every page with immediately accessible narrative lines.« less