Passing Images (Softcover) by Jennifer DiCamillo How much do you understand women? Even if you are one, you probably have some difficulty answering this question. Jennifer DiCamillo leads us into another sphere of womanhood that may have been hidden. Reaching out, she writes from more than one perspective-from the heart of a woman-in hope that a woman's wants and needs be seen and felt. New softcover. 2005.
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The Art of Blessing the Day (Hardcover) by Marge Piercy "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest about that difficult relationship. "These striking, original, beautifully sensuous poems do just that. Ordinary moments--a sunset, a walk, a private religious ritual--are so alive in poems like 'Shabbat moment' and 'Rosh Hodesh.' In the same way that she celebrates ordinary moments, small things become charged with memories and feelings: paper snowflakes, buttons, one bird, a bottle-cap flower made from a ginger ale top and crystal beads. "She celebrates the body in rollicking, gusto-filled poems like 'Belly good' and 'The chuppah,' where 'our bodies open their portals wide.' So much that is richly sensuous: 'hands that caressed you, . . . untied the knot of pleasure and loosened your flesh till it fluttered,' and lush praise for 'life in our spines, our throats, our knees, our genitals, our brains, our tongues.' New hardcover. 1999.
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The Poems of Robert Browning (Softcover) by Wordsworth Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry. In contrast to the more ornate and melodious style of Spenser and Tennyson. Browning vivdly demonstrates in his verse how the poet must be a sharply perceptive observer of the complexity of the human condition. Perhaps his most moving poetry was written to express his feelings for his wife, the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which he deals in a very 'modern' way with the uncomfortable fact that we can never quite bridge the gap between ourselves and the people we love. Original. 1994. New softcover.
