Love & Misadventure
Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair-...
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Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair- from the initial butterflies to the soaring heights- through to the devastating plunge. Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780473235505 (0473235501)
Publish date: April 26th 2013
Publisher: LM
Pages no: 78
Edition language: English
This is about 3.5 stars. This was lovely and had some beautiful works inside it. However, it didn't resonate with me like I expected. After reading other books of modern poetry (which is a very new thing for me), and after seeing such praise for Lang's work, I expected to fall head over feet in love...
It is unusual how the most simplest words can describe the most complex feelings. Yet this is what Leav has done in her poetry. I think I may have been the only person that did not hear all the hype about this book. I'm actually glad I did miss it all. Because I found it while walking through a book...
Unpretentious poetry: sentimental and silly; mushy and melancholy; loquacious and lamentatious. Opposing forces in.... well, love and misadventure. Honest to the point of being blunt -- as the ups and downs of love/infatuation are wont to render one to dramatism. A little bit limerick-y and Shel Sil...
I don't understand POETRY at all.. *sighs*not gonna talk bout this, I'm tired
10 years ago
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