Poems of Love and Marriage [Hardcover]

John Ciardi (Author)

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The Aging Lovers
Darling
The Deaths About You When You Stir In Sleep
The Deaths They Are, Those Great Eyes From The Air
Everytime You Are Sleeping
I Was Not Sleeping Nor Awake
In Pity As We Kiss And Lie
In Species, Darling
It Is Spring, Darling
A Love Poem
Men Marry What They Need
Morning
Morning: I Know Perfectly
Most Like An Arch This Marriage
Returning Home
The Something %nothing Any Love Can Tell
Sometimes The Foundering Fury
The Stills And Rapids Of Your Nakedness
The Stone Without Edges Has Not Been Mined
A Suite For Love
That Summer's Shore
Three A.m. And Then Five
To Judith Asleep
What World It Is The Crocodile May Know
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 45 pages
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press; First Edition edition (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557280533
• ISBN-13: 978-1557280534
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,532,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poems of Love and Marriage, November 28, 1999

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This review is from: Poems of Love and Marriage (Hardcover)

Mr. Ciardi gently and deeply embraces aspects of relationship that are subtle and quiet. He seems to whisper his heart's secrets to his readers. I've owned this book for over ten years and am now giving it as a gift. My copy is tattered around the edges from my frequent readings. It is a book to keep close by, and like a good friend or love, each time you read it, something new is revealed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Simply Love His Poetry, October 31, 2011

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This review is from: Poems of Love and Marriage (Hardcover)

I first new of John Ciardi with his clever book for children; I Met a Man and, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. This man is clever, witty and poignant.

I was happy to receive Poems of Love and Marriage. It is a book of deep, lasting love in poetry form.

Let me share an example:

RETURNING HOME
I want to tell you a
gentlest thing. Like light
to you. Like old faces
being fed a good memory
from inside themselves.
Like eyes that do not
watch but slowly meet
across a room in which
everyone is and no one
need hurry to what he is
sure of. i want to say
before we run out of
rooms and everyone
that I am slowest,
surest, gentlest,too,
across whatever room
I look at you.

I simply love his poetry!