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Poems of Love and Marriage

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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.

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!