Everything Voluptuous: The Love Songs 1970 - 2014
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692349154 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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"These elegant and sophisticated poems celebrate the love between women while they mourn the elegiac impermanence of" according to Marieap. These elegant and sophisticated poems celebrate the love between women while they mourn the elegiac impermanence of existence. They recall to me lines from Rumi: “Come on sweetheart/let’s adore one another/ before there is no more/ of you and me.” Schavrien’s poems shine with variable emotional color and music. She’s working in portrait cycles, starring lovers loved over time. This is a singularly suitable approach for a writer . Poems to Remember "remembering who we are" What a real gift to lesbians! If we remember who we are, we are always looking for someone who knows how to express the music, power, and emotion of our loving relationships. Judy Schavrien does this well in her book of poetry, which spans her love life over thirty years. Her images are rich and profound, capturing at once the sexual ripeness and spiritual wholeness of women's lovemaking. "if I could thread through the eyes of my man. We were sad when it was over and promise to do the bobbi ausubel The two of us sat on the couch with the book Everything Voluptuous and read the poems to each other, After one reading, the other always said, “Oh,yes, read it again.” In three nights we made it through the book. We were sad when it was over and promise to do the same again next year. What a lovely way to enjoy the rich images and recognizable joys and angst, ins and outs, of being in love.
From the Nobel Laureate SAUL BELLOW she received this praise for her previous book: "Judy Schavrien makes these extraordinary poems come to life in English translating as only one poet can translate another." (Back cover, what rhymes with cancer? , New Rivers Press)You do not want to miss this body of work. It even contains a gorgeous full-color inset of her visual portraits of women to complement the verbal ones. There is even a cycle unfurling the drama of a menage a trois. As Schavrien reminds us in her Foreward "We lovers were liberating women one orgasm at a time." The poems are both sophisticated