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Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous and Highly Strung
Bleeding Hearts presents a selection of truly neurotic and tortured love poetry-poems for the mean times, for the broken hearts, for the trampled hopes and for the rare and fragile outbreaks of nervous optimism. This is the Woody Allen School of tragic, fun and surprisingly sexy.
At last, a book for anyone who has binged on the saccharine songs of Love, anyone who has ever waited by the phone, and anyone who plans to somehow survive the angst, agony, and ecstasy of modern love.
Poets Anna Akhmatova, Yehuda Amichai, A.R. Ammons, Maya Angelou, James Berry, Nina Cassian, C.P. Cavafy, Wendy Cope, Noel Coward, ee.cummings, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Creeley, Paul Eluard, Tess Gallagher, Robert Graves, Sophie Hannah, Adrian Henri, June Jordan, D. H. Lawrence, Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Pablso Neruda, Dorothy Parker, Brian Patten, Octavio Paz, Alice Walker.
At last, a book for anyone who has binged on the saccharine songs of Love, anyone who has ever waited by the phone, and anyone who plans to somehow survive the angst, agony, and ecstasy of modern love.
Poets Anna Akhmatova, Yehuda Amichai, A.R. Ammons, Maya Angelou, James Berry, Nina Cassian, C.P. Cavafy, Wendy Cope, Noel Coward, ee.cummings, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Creeley, Paul Eluard, Tess Gallagher, Robert Graves, Sophie Hannah, Adrian Henri, June Jordan, D. H. Lawrence, Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Pablso Neruda, Dorothy Parker, Brian Patten, Octavio Paz, Alice Walker.
- GenresPoetry
128 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Michelle Lovric
112 books169 followersMichelle Lovric is a novelist, writer and anthologist.
Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.
Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.
In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winner, was also selected as a WH Smith ‘Read of the Week’.
Her first novel for young adult readers, The Undrowned Child, is published by Orion. The sequel is due in summer 2010.
Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, is published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2010.
Lovric reviews for publications including The Times and writes travel articles about Venice. She has featured in several BBC radio documentaries about Venice.
She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times best-seller.
Lovric divides her time between London and Venice. She holds a workshop in her home in London with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.
Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.
Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.
In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winner, was also selected as a WH Smith ‘Read of the Week’.
Her first novel for young adult readers, The Undrowned Child, is published by Orion. The sequel is due in summer 2010.
Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, is published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2010.
Lovric reviews for publications including The Times and writes travel articles about Venice. She has featured in several BBC radio documentaries about Venice.
She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times best-seller.
Lovric divides her time between London and Venice. She holds a workshop in her home in London with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.
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August 8, 2008
This book is every love story I have ever had...
June 22, 2024
This book influenced my poetry reading for decades. Because of its selections, I ended up purchasing collections by Swir, Fried, Neruda, Couzyn, cummings and more.
I just pulled it from a box in my basement and was delighted again.
I just pulled it from a box in my basement and was delighted again.
March 10, 2009
it was a book about feeling so all the ladies who like romance you should read this book.
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