The Virago Book Of Love Poetry
$44.21
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
17 February 1998
Summary
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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860494352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860494358 |
| Author: | Wendy Mulford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 201mm x 22mm |
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Feisty selection of anthems with attitude … a noisy throng of impressively dissimilar voices … A book to treasure
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 JOURNALAbout The Author
Wendy Mulford
Wendy Mulford is the author of eight collections of poetry and several works of prose. She founded Street Editions Press in 1972, and has done many readings and taken part in Festivals in Britain and abroad for many years. She has taught, amongst other places, at Thames Polytechnic. She has one daughter.
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