Intimate and obsessive poems addressed by a middle-aged woman to her young lover. Set in Britain in 1987-1990, the course of the relationship reflects the social and political tumult of the period, along with the constant threat of instant extinction.
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This poetic sequence concerns an unusual love triangle: a woman, her lover, and a third party. The woman is middle-aged, the lover barely 30. The third party is age itself--age and the public opinion that makes woman and lover drop each other's hands in public places; age and the mythology that lacks a single apotheosized pair that resembles the couple; age and the economics that forces woman and younger man together as much as it drives them apart. Kantaris writes with a force and an energy that are ageless, holding us riveted by the sensuality of the lovers' first encounters, the pain of their dissolution, the sad violence of their love's ending. Passionate and fearless, commanding work. Pat Monaghan
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