Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157731445X ISBN 13: 9781577314455

Publisher: New World Library, 2003

Synopsis

In 1997, sex therapist and marriage counselor Wendy Maltz, author of the Sexual Healing Journey and coauthor of Private Thoughts, compiled Passionate Hearts, an anthology of "poems that inspire and celebrate healthy sexual intimacy; poems in which heart connection was at the core of the sexual experience." In Intimate Kisses, Maltz follows on the success of Passionate Hearts with a new anthology of poetry that continues her celebration of healthy sexuality and, in the process, turns up the heat.

Intimate Kisses revels in what may be life’s greatest mystery, through some of richest, most celebrated poetry ever written. Included in this anthology are 121 poems by such poets as Marge Piercy, Emily Dickenson, Jelaluddin Rumi, Nikki Giovanni, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz, Molly Peacock, Dorianne Laux, Jane Hirshfield, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Galway Kinnell, and W.S. Merwin, as well as dozens of lesser-known and unpublished poets.

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Peeling An Orange by Virginia Hamilton Adair
Begin In The Night by Abigail Albrecht
Nesting by Abigail Albrecht
Night Of Blue Stars by Abigail Albrecht
Thirst by Linda Alexander
The Ninth Secret Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
A Simple Pleasure by Joseph H. Ball
Sometimes, After Making Love by Ellen Bass
Entry June 12 by Walter Benton
Entry October 26 by Walter Benton
Bacchanalia by J. B. Bernstein
Myth by Jonathan Blake
Aurora Leigh, Sels by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In A Gondola, Sels. by Robert Browning
The Smallest Blue Veins by Neil Emmanuel Carpathios
Love & Desire by Elizabeth Claman
O It's Nice To Get Up In, The Slipshod Mucous Kiss by Edward Estlin Cummings
Swans' Song by Elizabeth Dalton
Fire by Lucille Day
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
The Night The Children Were Away by Stephen Elliott Dunn
Awakening by Gayle Eleanor
Public Affection by Emani
At The Kitchen Counter by Jay Farbstein
Making Love by Walt Farran
Just Before Seventy by Rusty Fischer
Morning by Maureen Tolman Flannery
Tell Me by Carolyn Flynn
Time To Embrace by Michael Foster
Gravity by Rick Fournier
I Love Being Lost by Karen Garrison
Lastnight, After We Made Love by Danusha Lameris De Garza
The Butterfly by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
I Want To Sing by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
That Day by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
The Shape Of Brightness by Laura K. Gourlay
Where I Go After Sex by John Grey
Come With Me To Our Sweet Bed by Penny Harter
Night Poem by Penny Harter
In Your Hands by Jane Hirshfield
The Gateway by Alec Derwent Hope
Armfuls Of Summer by Kathleen Ann Iddings
The Dance by Robin Jacobson
Black Water by George Keithley
It by Leatha Kendrick
The Night by Galway Kinnell
After New Hampshire by Rosemary Klein
Apricots And Figs by Edward Kleinschmidt
Your Tongue by Edward Kleinschmidt
Horizons by Barbara La Morticella
2 Am by Dorianne Laux
Afterwards by Dorianne Laux
Seamless Beauty by Wendy Lee
All That Wet by Diane Q. Lewis
A Moment by Abraham Linik
On A Night Of The Full Moon by Audre Lorde
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Ewan Maccoll
And Sunday Morning by Christian Mcewen
Kiss by Corey Mesler
Descending by David Meuel
Finishing Touches by David Meuel
The Outpouring by David Meuel
Ten Years Together by David Meuel
What Makes It Good by David Meuel
Listener by Joseph Millar
Cornfield by Gail Morse
I Give You My Tongue by Patrick Mulrooney
Afterword by Ginger Murchison
Creation by Dara Prisamt Murray
Full Summer by Sharon Olds
I Cannot Forget The Woman In The Mirror by Sharon Olds
I Love It When by Sharon Olds
Last Night by Sharon Olds
Skinsong by Trudi Paraha
Spilling by Trudi Paraha
Whaia I Te Po by Trudi Paraha
Axis by Octavio Paz
Lightning At Rest by Octavio Paz
Touch by Octavio Paz
Bio Logos by Molly Peacock
Shaving Night Sonnet by Debra Pennington
Bones by Roger Pfingston
A Good Afternoon by Roger Pfingston
Occasion by Roger Pfingston
Little Acts Of Love by Marge Piercy
The Real Hearth by Marge Piercy
Wet by Marge Piercy
Alicante by Jacques Prevert
On Entering The Sea by Nizzar (nizar) Qabbani
This Night Only by Kenneth Rexroth
Oh Yeah by Charles Rossiter
Spring Overall. But Inside Us by Jelaluddin Rumi
Spring Paints The Countryside by Jelaluddin Rumi
The Ordinary Day Begins by June Sylvester Saraceno
The Tenth Kiss by Joannes Secundus
The Kiss by Anne Sexton
Fires by Floyd Skloot
Touches by Floyd Skloot
Breakfast In Bed by Michael S. Smith
The Water Cycle by Alison Stone
In Victoria's Secret, Near The Bras by Wally Swist
Redbud by Wally Swist
I Woke Up by Patti Tana
Laughing Thoroughbreds by Patti Tana
Lineaments Of Desire by Patti Tana
In The Kitchen by Alexander Taylor
Good by Bruce Taylor
I Want To Love You With Every Piece Of This Body by James Tipton
In The Absence Of Ocean by Alison Townsend
All Year Long by Anonymous
Aubade by Anonymous
The Enjoyment by Anonymous
Her Eyes In Sleep by Anonymous
Coming Together by Jeff Walt
Heat In The Body by David Watts
Love Poem by Sarah Brown Weitzman
Cloudburst by Edward L. Wier
Aubade by Robert Wrigley
Sun And Moon by Gina Zeitlin
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 157731445X
• ISBN 13: 9781577314455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Maltz Wendy