Original Love
by:
Molly Peacock (author)
Fiercely intimate in its honesty and fiercely formal in its measures, Molly Peacock's fourth collections shows the poet at the height of her powers. Using her trademark rhymes, characteristic humor, and daring sexual and psychological openness, Peacock intertwines at least four types of original...
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Fiercely intimate in its honesty and fiercely formal in its measures, Molly Peacock's fourth collections shows the poet at the height of her powers. Using her trademark rhymes, characteristic humor, and daring sexual and psychological openness, Peacock intertwines at least four types of original love in her poems: a narrative of meeting again and marrying in midlife; the tangled knot of mother/daughter love; a quest for the spiritual; and, finally, vibrant love of the self, triumphantly recovered after childhood abuse.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393314663 (0393314669)
Publish date: 1996-06-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Would it be cliché to say I love this book of poems about love? This is Ms. Peacock's fourth book of poems, but it is the first of hers that I have read. This was another used book store gem of a find (the other was "Twelve Moons" by Mary Oliver which I have also reviewed). Most of the poems are fre...
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