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Love About Love

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When this book first arrives, you will not like it. The poetic cadence is of obvious secondary consideration, and the line breaks reflect the writing of the time (which is still too close to now 2012, as to be yesterday's fashion.) There is a somewhat unrevised feel here, as if the author wanted to "get it down on paper", the subject matter being a very hot potato of sorts.

Then you will pick it up several days later and love it. The courageous handling of the subject matter - erotic love and everything associated both good and bad, make it well worth the effort to read. (And it's not that much an effort.) The awkward style of its stanzas is more than made up for in the courage of its convictions.

Everything erotic is addressed here with brutal honesty. Childhood, envy, joy, aging, miscommunication, mojo, groove (and the lack thereof); no chambers are left unexamined. This is a very sincere survey of the erotic dimension of a life, in poetic form. A life that upon reading we find uncomfortable echoes of in our own and those we know.

I'm guessing that one needs to be in a certain place to have these poems speak to you. The biblical exhortation "Let those with ears to hear, listen" is becoming. If you happen to be in that place (for whatever reason), buy the book. You'll find yourself not alone in your imperfection, embracing of our shared need and vulnerability. And very glad, forgiving even for that.