The Best American Erotic Poems

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015073982863

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The Best American Erotic Poems by David Lehman Pdf

There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy. David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy. In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing. This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.

Author : e. e. cummings
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871406590

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Erotic Poems by e. e. cummings Pdf

E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from “16” may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she

Author : Clarissa O. Clemens
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493777971

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The Poetic Art of Seduction by Clarissa O. Clemens Pdf

A collection of all 3 volumes of Clarissa O. Clemens' erotic poetry book series, The Poetic Art of Seduction, under 1 cover! An erotic gift of lyrical rhyme to keep on every bedroom nightstand for play. Kinky yet classy erotic poetry painting sexy pictures and scenes with seductive words to read to each other and get the mood soaked in seduction.What critics have said about Clarissa's poetry:"...A delicious dance with words...""Impossible not to be aroused...""...mouth-watering feast of erotic rhyme...""...her words ebb and flow with a superb sensuousness.""5 Stars is just not enough for this exquisite work of erotic art"78 Passionate poems of seduction are waiting for you to be devoured with lust and desire. 41Beautifully sensuous photographs have been included to heighten your visual experience with Ms. Clemens poetry.A must-have for every couple looking for new ways to add the spark back into their flame.

Author : Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015074283535

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Chinese Erotic Poems by Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping Pdf

A dazzling collection of Chinese erotic poems about deep love and pure lust, enticement and seduction, ecstasy and disappointment, that span nearly three thousand years and include many poems never before translated into English. The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly Here are poems that express need, hunger, grief, and longing—for husbands and wives and for concubines and lovers; poems by turns explicit or subtle, light-hearted or desperate, written from both men’s and women’s points of view. The editors have drawn on a wide range of sources from 600 BCE to the present, including highly literary poems, popular verse, and folk songs, as well as poems that appeared in ancient Daoist sex manuals, in classical novels of the Ming Dynasty, and in collections of erotic prints. The result is an array of voices that speak the universal language of desire. For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.

Author : Louis Untermeyer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Erotic poetry
ISBN : 9780595006540

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An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry by Louis Untermeyer Pdf

The language of love can be beautiful or bawdy, naively simple or boldly salacious, elegantly baroque or course and common梠r, in certain moments, a wild mixture of all of these. Louis Untermeyer has gathered the world抯 greatest erotica in verse, ranging from the Bible to the present day. The most renowned poets of all time are represented in this fresh collection where freedom of range is matched by an equal freedom of speech in writing about sexual love. From Ovid to Swinburne, from Chaucer to E.E. Cummings, from Queen Elizabeth to Emily Dickinson, the poetry burns with mounting emotion and smolders with importunate pleadings, aggravating delays, passionate fulfillment or, alas, painful frustration. Here are the unexplored extremes encompassed by well-loved poets, the outspoken sensuality in the union of love and lust, and the earthy celebration of carnal pleasure. Here in more than six hundred poems, are the infinite variations in the traditional battle of the sexes: the gallant approach, the tentative flirtation, the provocative badinage, the coy denial, the gradually permitted intimacy, the timid or breathless consent, and the finally shared extremity of passion.

Author : Wendy Maltz
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781577315674

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Passionate Hearts by Wendy Maltz Pdf

Culled from classic works of poetry, literary and erotica journals, and unpublished poetry, Passionate Hearts celebrates the joys of sexual expression. --New World Library. An essential addition to any sexuality library. --Patricia Love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611807110

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Erotic Love Poems from India by Anonim Pdf

The poets of classical India regarded love as the first and deepest of passions. Translator and scholar Andrew Schelling perfectly encapsulates the history and passion of eighth-century India in this collection. “A single stanza of the poet Amaru,” declared a ninth-century poetry critic, “may provide the taste of love equal to what’s found in whole volumes.” Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka (“One Hundred Poems of Amaru”), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India’s finest collections of love poetry. Legend connects the poetry’s authorship to King Amaru of Kashmir, while present-day scholars generally consider it an anthology of the verses of many poets.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 019283939X

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Erotic Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Editorial censorship has long obscured Goethe's Roman Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany. They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them, together with the long-supressed narrative poem known as The Diary. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. An illuminating Introduction by Hans Vaget provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them.

Author : Peter Washington
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679433224

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Erotic Poems by Peter Washington Pdf

These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's "Parody of a Lover" to John Betmeman's "Late-Flowering Lust," they re-create, through the revelations of language, that experience of the erotic. Other poets include Theodore Roethke, Robert Graves, Octavio Paz, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and many others.

Author : Scott McMorrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Erotic poetry, American
ISBN : 1576121992

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Velvet Heat by Scott McMorrow Pdf

Author : Rod Willmot
Publisher : Windsor, Ont. : Black Moss Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0887530931

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Erotic Haiku by Rod Willmot Pdf

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1852246286

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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver Pdf

Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781439104859

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The Best American Poetry 2006 by Billy Collins Pdf

"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women." In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644451137

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Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award 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: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781640093430

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Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Fragmentary, unabashed, erotic―“Lifting Belly” is a singular lesbian love poem from modernist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) which lays bare desire and easy intimacy—now in a beautifully packaged edition. What is it when it’s upset. It isn’t in the room. Moonlight and darkness. Sleep and not sleep. We sleep every night. What was it. I said lifting belly. You didn’t say it. I said I mean lifting belly. Don’t misunderstand me. Do you. Do you lift everybody in that way. No. You are to say No. Lifting belly. How are you. Lifting belly how are you lifting belly. We like a fire and we don’t mind if it smokes. Do you. ―From “Lifting Belly” Each palm–size book in the Counterpoints series is meant to stay with you, whether safely in your pocket or long after you turn the last page. From short stories to essays to poems, these little books celebrate our most–beloved writers, whose work encapsulates the spirit of Counterpoint Press: cutting–edge, wide–ranging, and independent.