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Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets

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Saddened by the losses? Try this swell anthology. It will make the room glow back at you with convivial company and music. I think a lot, it gets me through, and this is perfect for the bathroom, the bedroom, the windowseat overlooking the construction site. You come across as a horse in touch with intoxicants. Listen: A lot of energy, nerve, tenderness and fashion comes crammed between these pages, and even though it doesn't announce itself as such, what we have here, Doctor, is a case of practically every younger poet you really ought to know about. Brace yourself for a big bag of caramels.

Terrific anthology boasting most of the most pleasant younger poets publishing nowadays. With an ultracool music CD in the bargain, it's chance-free really. You deserve this, dearheart.

There were few poems in here that I actually found romantic. With all the good reviews, I even went back and read it again in case I was just in a bad mood when I read it the first time. But, no, my first impressions was the same.
Lee Ann Brown's "After Sappho" was the best. That was because it echoed my own experience with my wife of now 35 years ago. I also liked Catherine Wagner's "Lover" about going back in time and loving various people in literary history. Most of the others just passed me by.
I'm listening to the CD with the love songs as I write this. It's better than the book.