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For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstacy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhamotova,Patti Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of women as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it.

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Feisty selection of anthems with attitude ... a noisy throng of impressively dissimilar voices ... A book to treasure * IRISH TIMES *
An exhilarating collection with women across the centuries writing about love, with wit, passion, frustration, rage and ecstacy. * WOMAN'S JOURNAL *

The Virago Book Of Love Poetry

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 05/02/1998
      ISBN13: 9781860494352, 978-1860494352
      ISBN10: 1860494358
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstacy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhamotova,Patti Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of women as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it.

      Trade Review
      Feisty selection of anthems with attitude ... a noisy throng of impressively dissimilar voices ... A book to treasure * IRISH TIMES *
      An exhilarating collection with women across the centuries writing about love, with wit, passion, frustration, rage and ecstacy. * WOMAN'S JOURNAL *

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