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Following the success of Poetry Out Loud (now in its eighth printing), an affectionate celebration of the declaimed poem, Love Poetry Out Loud now turns to the choppier waters of affection itself. From Hello, I Love You to Pleasures of the Flesh to Loves Me Not, this collection of one hundred poems shouts out life’s grand passion with the help of the voices of poets old and new.
Rubin’s informed, irreverent style skillfully reveals the humor, beauty, variety, tradition, and passion of love poetry. Insightful commentary on the poems’ meanings and on ways to read them aloud, as well as notes on their history and background, are found on every page. Whether long lived like Shakespeare’s sonnets or newly-hewn like Carolyn Forché’s “Taking Off My Clothes,” Love Poetry Out Loud makes each poem as fresh and inspiring as the first time it was uttered.
Rubin’s informed, irreverent style skillfully reveals the humor, beauty, variety, tradition, and passion of love poetry. Insightful commentary on the poems’ meanings and on ways to read them aloud, as well as notes on their history and background, are found on every page. Whether long lived like Shakespeare’s sonnets or newly-hewn like Carolyn Forché’s “Taking Off My Clothes,” Love Poetry Out Loud makes each poem as fresh and inspiring as the first time it was uttered.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616202309 |
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| Publisher: | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
| Publication date: | 02/02/2007 |
| Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 200 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Robert Alden Rubin holds an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins College. He worked as a journalist and a college English instructor at the University of North Carolina and was an editor for Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. His books include Poetry Out Loud and On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage. He lives in Sykesville, Maryland, with his wife.
Table of Contents
Why Love Poetry? xvii
Silly Love Songs 1
Litany Billy Collins 2
For an Amorous Lady Theodore Roethke 4
She's All My Fancy Painted Him Lewis Carroll 5
The Lingam and the Yoni A. D. Hope 7
To an Usherette John Updike 10
Love under the Republicans (or Democrats) Ogden Nash 11
Love: Two Vignettes Robert Penn Warren 12
Resignation Nikki Giovanni 14
"O Mistress Mine"(from Twelfth Night) William Shakespeare 18
Nothing but No and I Michael Drayton 19
Hello, I Love You 21
The Good Morrow John Donne 22
"Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" Emily Dickinson 24
Meeting and Tossing Robert Frost 25
The Greeting R. H. W. Dillard 26
The Light$dCommon 28
"The Twenty-ninth Bather" (from Song of Myself) Walt Whitman 32
Thine Eyes Still Shined Ralph Waldo Emerson 34
Surprised by Joy William Wordsworth 35
Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley 36
Poem Seanius Heaney 37
The Comedy of Eros 39
Pucker Ritah Parrish 40
Love Portions Julia Alvarez 45
Lonely Hearts Wendy Cope 47
"I, being born a woman" Edna St. Vincent Millay 49
Love Song: I and Thou Alan Dugan 50
Love Song Dorothy Parker 52
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh 54
Portrait of a Lady William Carlos Williams 56
Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? John Keats 58
Brown Penny W.B.Yeats 60
Eye of the Beholder 61
How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning 62
Juke Box Love Song Langston Hughes 63
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet 64
from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet John Berryman 65
Song: To Celia Ben Jonson 67
A Red,Red Rose Robert Burns 68
Ask Me No More Thomas Carew 69
A Girl in a Library Randall Jarrell 71
"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" William Shakespeare 77
"Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" Archibald MacLeish 78
Loves Me 81
A Birthday Christina Georgina Rossetti 82
Thou Art My Lute Paul Laurence Dunbar 83
Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond E. E. Cummings 84
Love Poem Connie Voisine 86
The Song of Songs (7:1-8:3)$dThe New English Bible 88
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand" (from Romeo and Juliet) William Shakespeare 91
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Alfred, Lord Tennyson 92
When We Two Parted George Gordon Lord Byron 93
"Joy of my life, full oft for loving you" Edmund Spenser 95
The Changed Man Robert Phillips 96
Loves Me Not 99
Then Came Flowers Rita Dove 100
The Defiance Aphra Behn 101
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne 102
When You Are Old W. B. Yeats 104
I Will Not Give Thee All My Heart Grace Hazard Conkling 105
Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy 106
"I hear an army charging upon the land" James Joyce 107
Silentium Amoris Oscar Wilde 108
Variations on the Word Love Margaret Atwood 109
Taking Off My Clothes Carolyn Forche 111
Pleasures of the Flesh 113
Wrestling Louisa S. Bevington 114
Wet Marge Piercy 115
Down, Wanton, Down! Robert Graves 117
Poem for Sigmund Lorna Crozier 119
Lullaby W. H. Auden 120
Green Paul Verlaine 122
Coral Derek Walcott 124
Her Lips Are Copper Wire Jean Toomer 125
"Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy" John Donne 126
The Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style J. V. Cunningham 129
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? 131
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Ezra Pound 132
Letter Home Stephen Dunn 134
The Voice Thomas Hardy 137
I Will Not Let Thee Go Robert Bridges 138
The Meeting Katherine Mansfield 140
Still Looking Out for Number One Raymond Carver 142
Bearded Oaks Robert Penn Warren 143
48 Hours after You Left DJ Renegade 146
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold" William Shakespeare 148
Good Night W. S. Merwin 149
A Failure to Communicate 151
Never Pain to Tell Thy Love William Blake 152
You Say I Love Not Robert Herrick 153
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prujrock T. S. Eliot 154
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 162
Fire and Ice Robert Frost 164
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" Emily Dickinson 165
"Since the majority of me" Philip Larkin 166
The Rival Sylvia Plath 167
The Lost Mistress Robert Browning 169
Sleeping with You John Updike 171
Second Time Around 173
"Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part" Michael Drayton 174
"Sigh No More, Ladies" (from Much Ado About Nothing) William Shakespeare 175
Sources of the Delaware Dean Young 176
December at Yase Gary Snyder 180
Freedom Jan Struther 182
Good Morning, Love! Paul Blackburn 183
I So Liked Spring Charlotte Mew 185
I Look into My Glass Thomas Hardy 186
An Answer to a Love Letter in Verse Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 187
Symptom Recital Dorothy Parker 189
Index of Titles 191
Index of First Lines 195
Index of Authors 199
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