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The Virago Book of Love Poetry (Paperback)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (5 Feb 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1860494358
ISBN-13: 978-1860494352
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 2.9 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars An alternative love, 13 Feb 2009

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If you're opening the book expecting to find a bunch of soppy love poems, then don't bother turning the first page. The Virago Book of Love Poetry deals with the ambiguous word 'love' in all its shapes and forms, in all its anger, happiness, frustration and confusion. The separation into sections does little to structure the poems, but as the introduction points out the whole point of the collection is to prevent predisposed expectations of love poetry being thrust upon the book. Although there are poems stretching from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy, there is no date on the specific poems, only a slight biographical detailing at the back of the book.

All in all a new look at an old topic. Worth the read.

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