"The Coronary Garden is a collection braiding love and mortality, and through these quietly powerful poems Townsend announces her presence as a serious voice in contemporary poetry.In subjects as varied as babies, saints, sex, illness, and ...
A collection of deeply personal poems by Tupac Shakur - a mirror into his enigmatic world and its many contradicitions written from the time he was nineteen.
Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.
"I Stole a Rock is an incredibly varied collection of love poems, full of longing and despair, bitter humor, and the joys of romantic communion.
A book that incorporates the need to seek an explanation for the death of love in the hands of an irresponsible destination.
The author presents a wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.
" . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique." —Virginia Quarterly Review
What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities.
What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities.