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Try This One On for Size, by Cate Marvin
Let me show you a poem that I think combines Eros and the Erotic. It’s by Maurice Manning and it’s from his first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (Yale, 2001). You’ll probably find…
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Thinking (a little too hard) about the issue at hand, by Cate Marvin
Oh, long, long ago, when I was an adolescent (13 years old, to be exact) and completely in the dark about the affairs of the sexes, I used to scour historical romance novels. I…
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Considering the Difference Between Eros and the Erotic, by Cate Marvin
What’s the difference between Eros and the Erotic? Are they not kindred? Or are they one and the same? It’s love that interests me most. As a poet and as a person. Therefore, I…
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“As the Underworld Turns” by Sally Cook
Sally Cook’s cleverly titled "As the Underworld Turns" was named one of two runners-up in the recent BAP Poem Challenge judged by Paul Violi. It’s a charmer! Here it is: AS THE UNDERWORLD TURNS…
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A Puritan Take on Erotic Poetry (Please Bear With Me) by Cate Marvin
David Lehman was kind enough to include one of my poems in his Best American Erotic Poems anthology. And then he was kind enough to ask me to blog here. I have my vices.…
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Richard Rodgers in 1925
Richard Rodgers had been writing music, with Lorenz Hart’s lyrics, since the two collaborated on the Columbia varsity show in 1920. Following that happy experience, the pair continued to write musicals but without commercial…
