Love: Poems [Hardcover]

Danielle Steel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1984

This is a special book about special people.  People who have loved me, and whom I have loved.  People who have brought me joy beyond measure, and sometimes incredible pain.  People I have hurt, sometimes more than I can bear to think about.  People who have hurt me, sometimes more than they know.  Yet each of their gifts has been precious, each moment treasured, each face, each smile, each victory, each defeat woven into the fiber of my being.  In retrospect, all of it is beautiful, because we cared so much.  In essence, this book covers fifteen years of my life, and a handful of precious people who mean, and have meant everything to me.  This book is written for them.

With much love, d.s.


From the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

font size=+1>Silence
Your silence hurts,
it weighs heavily,
dammit,
I cared so bloody much,
I hurt, I gave,
I cried,
I wanted,
needed,
hoped,
the scope
of it all
still overwhelms me
as I paint portraits
in the sky
seeing you
in my mind's eye
painting in
your presence
for a thousand years
to come,
wanting, wishing,
hoping,
seeing,
yet frightened
that
you'll
fade away...
and then
trembling,
I realize
once more...
there was no call
from you
today.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

This is a special book about special people.  People who have loved me, and whom I have loved.  People who have brought me joy beyond measure, and sometimes incredible pain.  People I have hurt, sometimes more than I can bear to think about.  People who have hurt me, sometimes more than they know.  Yet each of their gifts has been precious, each moment treasured, each face, each smile, each victory, each defeat woven into the fiber of my being.  In retrospect, all of it is beautiful, because we cared so much.  In essence, this book covers fifteen years of my life, and a handful of precious people who mean, and have meant everything to me.  This book is written for them.

With much love, d.s.


From the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 159 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press (October 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385293631
• ISBN-13: 978-0385293631
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #870,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include 44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart, One Day at a Time, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous "Love" Laugh, August 11, 2002

By 

Amy (Dallas/Ft. Worth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love: Poems (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is hysterical. The poetry is so bad that it's pure humor. I was with friends reading these poems aloud the other evening and everyone was laughing so hard they were crying. If you are a fan of legitimate poetry, YOU CANNOT PASS THIS UP. You'll (hopefully) never get another opportunity to laugh so hard in all of your life.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Love Love Love - NOT!!!!, February 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Love: Poems by Danielle Steel (School & Library Binding)

Love is lovely love is loving lovely is taking love is giving - I made that last poem up by myself. I do not recommend this book unless you are a hardcore danielle steel fan and then of course I recommend every ot her book by her for your collection. I found the poems to be light and tright and not out of sight and not at all full of delight. IF you are searching for good amorous poetry might I suggest Elizabeth Barret Browning or perhaps Pablo Neruda. This is a book that one might want to access if one cannot find a hallmark card good enough for one's significant other. I don't want to be harsh...but lets not call this poetry.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse Verse Was Never Written--Ever--Promise!!!, June 15, 2003

By 

Kelly Langston-Smith (Atomic City, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love: Poems (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is, quite possibly and with little exaggeration, the worst book of poetry ever published. If you are a fan of very bad poetry, I recommend this with all of my heart. You will chuckle until your sides ache at this insipid piece of barely rhymed fluff. It isn't that the subject matter is what is objected to, heck, Byron, Keates and Shelley all wrote pages and pages about love and romance and the warm fuzzy feelings you get when that special someone looks your way. But Danielle Steele wins the prize for writing a book of poetry without really knowing what a poem is (or how one is written). Even at the outer edges of the definition of "poem," you will not find any justification for what is perpetrated here. They wouldn't even print this junk in a Hallmark card it is so bad. Go dig up a love poem you wrote for some guy or girl you liked in the third grade--Read it--Note how horrible it is and how embarrassed you would be to have it read in public today--Then don't sweat it--Because it was probably no worse and possibly much better than any poem in Steel's "Love." Another favorite poetry book of mine, "Very Bad Poetry" edited by Kathryn and Ross Petras, purports to contain the worst poem ever written in the English language. And it does. An absolute stinker. But many of the poems in Danielle Steel's "Love" book come awfully, awfully close.