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Love Poems, is the definitive collection of Irving Layton’s love poetry. Few poets have written with such sensual intensity, vitality and passion in celebration of women. Here you will discover poems of extraordinary variety joy, jealousy, sexuality, exultation, lyricism, sarcasm and disappointment.
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Irving Layton is Canada’s greatest poet. The author of 45 books, his works have been translated into 12 languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, Polish, Korean, Greek and Dutch. Major editions of his work have recently been published in Italy and Spain. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature.
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"I'm knocked out by the richness, the resonance, the generosity, the hard intelligence, the clarity, the passion, and above all else, the great, great aching tenderness, which remains very much a part of who he is and he means to me."
— Leonard Cohen
"Irving Layton takes his place with ease among the best poets writing in English today anywhere."
— George Woodcock, former editor of Canadian Literature
"When I first clapped my eyes on the poems of Irving Layton...I let out a yell of joy..."
— William Carlos Williams
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0771049099
- ISBN 13 9780771049095
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages139
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Susana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, cover illustration. (illustrator). First Soft Cover Edition. 139 pp, 9" H. "Intensely sensual, throbbing with vitality, this is the definitive collection of Irving Layton's greatest love poems. No poet of any time has written more poems in celebration of women. Certainly few, if any, have written with greater sensitivity or passion than Layton, whose many-hued eroticism blazes more intensely with every year. These poems are an enduring tribute not only to the women who have touched Layton's life, but to love's alchemy and its universal power to transform our lives." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of covers and on the spine, spine is flat and uncreased. Not Signed. Seller Inventory # 8720
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