A Constellation of Kisses - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947896172 ISBN 13: 9781947896178

Publisher: Terrapin Books, 2019

Synopsis

A kiss is never just a kiss--heat-seeking, information bearing, coded. In this inspired collection, poet and editor Diane Lockward has assembled over 100 poems about kisses written by many of our best contemporary poets. You'll find kisses longed for, kisses auditioned, kisses rehearsed. Ritualistic kissing. Delicious kissing. Kissing that comforts the grieving. Kissing that blesses a union ... Kisses in this anthology may be romantic or funny or comforting or erotic or mournful--and more ... We may hope that kissing always begins in delight and keeps on being delightful. But the truth, of course, is otherwise. This is, after all, a constellation of kisses ... May there be no end to the most genuine kisses, the right kisses, the ones that are good and meant for us to savor. And while we're at it, let's wish for no end to poems about kissing. (from the Foreword by Lee Upton)

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From the Back Cover

Contributors to the anthology:                                                                                                     Kim Addonizio   Kelli Russell Agodon   Susan Aizenberg   Nin Andrews   Wendy Barker Tony Barnstone   Tina Barry   Ellen Bass   Michele Battiste   Jane Beal  Jan Beatty Jeanne Marie Beaumont   Margo Berdeshevsky   Jacqueline Berger   Michelle Bitting Julie Bloemeke  Laure-Anne Bosselaar   Elya Braden  Jason Lee Brown   Kurt Brown Debra Bruce   Jennifer Burd  Elena Karina Byrne   Lauren Camp   Neil Carpathios Robin Rosen Chang   Amanda Chiado   Christopher Citro   Patricia Clark  Cathryn Cofell  Geraldine Connolly   Jackie Craven   Jim Daniels   Jessica de Koninck   Maureen Doallas   Lynn Domina   Caitlin Doyle   Denise Duhamel   Jane Ebihara   Alexis Rhone Fancher   Ann Fisher-Wirth   Alice Friman   Deborah Gerrish   Ona Gritz   Bruce Guernsey Tami Haaland   Jared Harel   Jeffrey Harrison   Hunt Hawkins   Shayla Hawkins Karen Paul Holmes   John Hoppenthaler   Karla Huston   Gray Jacobik   Richard Jones   Allison Joseph   Tina Kelley  Adele Kenny   Claire Keyes   David Kirby   Lynne Knight   Danusha Laméris   Lance Larsen  Dorianne Laux   Jenifer Lawrence.  Lynn Levin Jeffrey Levine   Katharyn Machan  Marjorie Maddox    Jennifer Maier   Charlotte Mandel   Kelly McQuain   Natasha Moni   Ruth Mota  Peter Murphy   Dion O'Reilly   Amy Pence    Paulann Petersen   John Poch   Andrea Potos  Wanda Praisner   Christine Rhein Susan Rich   Susanna Rich  Katherine Riegel   Kenneth Ronkowitz   Dan Rosenberg   Susan Rothbard   Leigh Camacho Rourks    Rajwant Saghera  Nicholas Samaras   Tim Seibles   Ron Smith   Christine Stewart-Nunez   Marilyn Taylor   J. C. Todd   Sharon Tracey   William Trowbridge   David Vincenti   Charles Harper Webb   Scott Wiggerman  Terence Winch  Cecilia Woloch   Baron Wormser   Robert Wrigley   Michael T. Young   Yvonne Zipter
 
 
 
 
 

About the Author

Diane Lockward is the editor of three poetry craft books, most recently The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics (Terrapin Books, 2018). She is also the author of four poetry books, most recently The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement (Wind Publications, 2016). Her awards include the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Woman of Achievement Award. Her poems have been included in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. She is the founder, editor, and publisher of Terrapin Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Terrapin Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1947896172
• ISBN 13: 9781947896178
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 202
• Editor: Lockward Diane