Book description
In this collection of his best poems, Bruce F. Kawin explores many
aspects of love, from the romantic to the metaphysical and from sex to
mourning. The breadth of voice and form is masterful, and the poems
are bold and evocative. As complex as they are, they relate plainly to
real life. The book includes a sestina about a harried woman, a sonnet
sequence reimagined as a slide show, a menu of potential love stories,
a lesbian epic set in modern Greece and reimagined versions of old
horror films, all of them charged with startling, moving and
convincing visions of love. With his unique tone and subject matter,
his good stories, his striking insights and his fresh, vivid language,
Kawin reinvents and revives the love poem.
