The hell with love : poems to mend a broken heart

The hell with love Poems to mend a broken heart

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Subjects
Love poetry, American.
Love > Poetry.
Separation (Psychology) > Poetry.
Loss (Psychology) > Poetry.
Published
New York : Warner Books 2002.
Language
English
Other Authors
Mary D. Esselman (-), Elizabeth Ash Velez
Physical Description
236 pages ; 17 cm
ISBN
9780446678544
  • Introduction
  • Rage: When Hatred Isn't Strong Enough
  • "You fit into me"
  • "Somewhere A Seed"
  • "Hatred"
  • "The Message"
  • "Unwritten Law"
  • "Quick and Bitter"
  • "Mock Orange"
  • "wishes for sons"
  • Sadness: When You'd Rather Die Than Eat or Sleep
  • "Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Sojourn in Hell"
  • "After Great Pain"
  • "Some Days"
  • "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
  • "The Song of Divorce"
  • "Chinese Dragons"
  • "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota"
  • From "Coda"
  • "Cigarettes"
  • Excerpt from Hamlet
  • Excerpt from Macbeth
  • Self-Hatred: When You're Convinced It's All Your Fault
  • "Women"
  • "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell"
  • "The Heart Rounds Up the Usual Suspects"
  • "Cosmetics Do No Good"
  • "A Work of Artifice"
  • "I Go Back to May 1937"
  • "This Be the Verse"
  • "Memories at the Movies"
  • False Hope: When You're Convinced You can Get Back Together
  • "If You Forget Me"
  • "The Vow"
  • "Since There's No Help"
  • "A Farewell"
  • "Elvis P. and Emma B."
  • "I Can't Hold You and I Can't Leave You"
  • "litany"
  • Resolve: When You're Determined to Move On
  • "Resume"
  • "Renouncement"
  • "One Is One"
  • "Winding Up"
  • "Amor Vincit Omnia"
  • "One Art"
  • "Lute Song"
  • Relapse: When You'd Give Anything to Go Back
  • "Sunshine"
  • "A Late Walk"
  • "The New Dog"
  • "True Love"
  • "The Flea"
  • "What She Said"
  • "I Want to Die While You Love Me"
  • "Strawberries"
  • "This Much I Do Remember"
  • Real Hope: When You Rediscover Yourself and Your Strengths
  • "Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself"
  • "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
  • "Da Capo"
  • "Home Sweet Home"
  • "Oh, When I Was in Love with You"
  • "In the Grove: The Poet at Ten"
  • "The Pruned Tree"
  • "Vespers"
  • "To Earthward"
  • "Lies"
  • Moving On: When You Rediscover the World and its Joys
  • "In Blackwater Woods"
  • "The Fish"
  • "Let Evening Come"
  • "Morning"
  • "Musee des Beaux Arts"
  • "Tiara"
  • "Upon Entering"
  • "O Taste and See"
  • "Strawberrying"
  • "Honey"
  • "Teste Moanial"
  • "Throw Yourself Like Seed"
  • "Picnic, Lightning"
  • "Mowing"
  • "i thank You God for most this amazing"
  • Afterword
  • Biographies of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Those looking to poetry to ease a recent breakup won't have to thumb through painfully irrelevant odes to joy any longer. The pocket-sized The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart, edited by Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Velez, organizes its contents according to the stages of heartbreak ("anger," "sadness," etc.). Most are by well-known 20th-century U.S. poets: William Carlos Williams, Louise Gleck, Sharon Olds, though Donne, Shakespeare and Larkin also make appearances. Predictable selections (Margaret Atwood's "You Fit Into Me") are balanced out by a few eccentric, perhaps witty curatorial decisions, such as the inclusion of Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts" in the section called "Moving On." ( Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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