Drawing its title from William Blake''s hymn of praise to sexual love (<i><i>Visions of the Daughters of Albion</i></i>), this little book inscribes the word "love" in 22 of its 33 poems. They celebrate delights of being in a body. But not just sex-love of God, of friends, parents, children, pets, poems, even food, all are savored. I am struck, as well, by this poet''s range of thought, feeling, and allusion: Li Po to Garcia Lorca, May Swenson, Mary Oliver and Richard Dawkins, to Blake, the Bible, and Shakespeare (in the delightful ballad "If Will Hath a Will, Anne Hathaway"). Most of all, I am haunted by the opening piece, words of love aborted mid-sentence by death.<br>Helms has a way of making complex ideas accessible. His poems enhance and deepen our intellectual as well as sensual pleasures. Read them slowly ("mouth these verses, mumble them, suck their juice," he suggests); they will enrich you.<br> -Joanna Dales<br><p><br>Fifty years ago, John Stallworthy compiled <i><i>The Peng
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<div><b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Radical Leap </i>and <i>Greater Than Yourself </i>comes the </b><b>first book to directly address love as a hard-core business principle that generates...
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<P>The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. <I>Love Is Love Is Love</I>...
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Love, Love, Love, the latest play by Olivier award winning writer Mike Bartlett, explores whether the baby boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children, now adults but far from stable and settled.
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