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Portable Kisses
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781852243654
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Jan 25 1996
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
'Ideally, a reader should finish this book, then find someone to kiss' - Tess Gallagher.
'This is the best book of love poems since Neruda's' - Bill Knott.
'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss, ' says American poet Tess Gallagher. And so with these playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses, a whole book devoted to the kiss.
Portable Kisses is a book which kept growing. The earliest poems were published in a hand-printed limited edition called Portable Kisses in 1978. But the poems wouldn't stop, like the best of kisses, and Tess Gallagher published a new Portable Kisses in 1992, followed two years later by Portable Kisses Expanded. This first UK edition of the most travelled kisses in poetry since Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair includes all the kisses Tess Gallagher has put down on paper.
'In Portable Kisses, she convincingly provides condensed librettos of lovers' patterns of approach and retreat... It's a book filled with beauty, energy and surprise' - Ann Beattie.
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