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First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well. Annotation. First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking...
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) is a collection of sonnets by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written between 1845 and 1846, Sonnets from the Portuguese is a series of love poems written by Browning to her husband, the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning. Although Elizabeth was initially unsure of the poems, Robert encouraged their publication, suggesting she title them to make readers believe they were translations and not personal...
3) Love poems
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary Seduction to the tender new poem, Just a Simple Declaration of Love, from the whimsical I Wrote a Good Omelet to the elegiac All Eyez on U, written for Tupac Shakur, these...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of one hundred poems about love, organized into such categories as silly love songs, loves me not, and failure to communicate, and includes poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions,...
Publisher
Carolina Wren Press, [a division of] Blair
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 195 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines erotic poetry. For what is more intriguing, more satisfying than strong, self-assured writing? This groundbreaking anthology includes some of our most powerful women writers among them Sharon Olds, Elizabeth Alexander, Anne Sexton, Dorianne Laux, Denise Levertov,...
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Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xlv, 206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years - certainly a record for poetry of any kind - and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. In the...
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English
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Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages--bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers--be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 115 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. Seductive, earthy, at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant new collection of poetry celebrates the female aspects of love - from the reflective to the overtly erotic - in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction. These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional...
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Sappho to Shakespeareto Cole Porter--a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted"...
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics-both poems and songs-ever written. Each poem highlights a distinct aspect of the human condition, and together the poems explore...
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
155, [2] leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affairfrom the initial butterflies through the soaring heights to the devastating plunge. And, in the end, the message is one of hope. The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an...
17) Rapture
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Language
English
Description
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian)
The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation,...
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1136
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pablo Neruda finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the island, Neruda addressed these poems of love, ecstasy, devotion, and fury to his lover, Matilde Urrutia. This complete bilingual edition has become a classic for love struck readers around the world passionate, sensuous and burning with all the energy of new love.
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Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of poetry explores the vast dimensions of life, from the personal to the spiritual, in works by such notables as Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Rumi, Wislawa Szymborska, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, and Mary Oliver.
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