Wendy Mulford

This book samples the love poetry from women around the world and throughout the ages from Sappho to Maya Angelou. It's full of the powerful feelings of love, lust, romance and of course, bitterness, betrayal and disgust. My only complaint about this book is that the organizational method is less than ideal. The chaper titles are taken from lines of poetry, and while I enjoy interpreting the poems themselves, I prefer to know what I'm getting into when I go to a new chapter. What do you expect to read in a chapter titled "in name alone a felicity?" I'm not sure.… (altro)