I love these nights we spend together

No other creative group is as willing to use the most meticulous color palette of words to map the gradient contours of our lives and psychological topography as contemporary American poetry. Words hunt in empirical reality and bite their prey at any moment, which is particularly noticeable in love poetry.
This book compiles 69 representative works by 21 contemporary American poets, including Louise Glück, Frost Gander, Mark Strand, and Maya Angelou. Each poem revolves around sudden bursts of desire, long-suffering lies, melodramatic flirtations, the insatiable yearning of long-distance relationships, the physical magic of self-love, the complacent love for someone you shouldn't love, and the complications of a love match entering marriage... No situation is unworthy of description, no object unexamined. Readers will learn the words necessary to name their own experiences from the poems. The syntax cherished through shared appreciation during reading can be readily recited in the face of future experiences. This is perhaps the greatest reward of poetic empathy.

2021-10-01

上海文艺出版社

220

9787532180202