The Love Poems
$75.00
No contemporary poet in English has written such a sustained sequence of love poems over a lifetime, poems exploring the full range of emotions—purity, lust, devotion, rage, betrayal, serenity.
Love takes many shapes, from the carbon of lust to the diamond of divine love. We try our best, we stumble, we are blinded. Nonetheless love lives and renews later life as a mortal thing immortalized. There are many ways of regarding love, from the humility, courtesy, adultery and religion of courtly love, to the eastern bodily mysticism of tantric. This book is a diary of John Montague’s attempts to love.
With drawings by Claire Weissman Wilks.
Poetry; 1992 • 7 x 10 inches • 195 pages • 9781550960884
Very Rare – less than 10 copies available
John Montague, of Irish descent, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. He has published a substantial body of poetry as well as two collections of short stories, an autobiographical novella and a book of memoirs. Since the early 1970s Cork has been his home, and has become one of the major Irish poets of the 20th Century, continuing to write and publish while into his seventies. The American critic Harold Bloom has Montague in his selection for what he considers The Canon. Montague’s American instincts provide, along with Thomas Kinsella, an important counterweight to the more British influences of other major poets from Northern Ireland such as Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
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