Change of Seasons: Selected Poems

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Change of Seasons: Selected Poems

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Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. From Read Me 2: From Katherine Towers' The Remedies. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Where are the songs of spring? So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable.

You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain:. When did you ever see So much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls On that small tree And saturates your brick back garden walls, So many Amber Rooms and mirror halls? Ever more lavish as the dusk descends This glistening illuminates the air.

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons

Whenever the rain comes it will be there, Beyond my time, but now I take my share. Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame. How about doing it in sonnets? Shakespeare never tried that! These sonnets are perfect. And they flow like a river. And like the river flowing to the sea, the narrative deepens.

The voices of the characters emerge. Almost begin to read the poems aloud. The story that results will break your hea A poetic masterpiece, simply a tour de force by a fiercely intelligent, sensitive poet who set out to write a novel in poetry. The story that results will break your heart. For once I see brilliance in the cover art. This book is the Vermeer of love poetry. Longing and stolen pleasure. Mostly dead sexy, with gorgeously erotic high points. The one book I recommend whenever somebody asks me for a great volume of love poems.

By the bedside for poetry lovers. Apr 27, Stephy rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: People Who Love Words and Women. This is a book of Love Poetry, written by Marilyn Hacker, an already famous poet. I more than like her.

I admire her gifts of words to the world. I respect her a great deal. This should be recognized as word portraits of moments between lovers, magnificently touched to include feelings we mere mortals cannot put into words. The Poets with their word nets, chase them down and pin them to paper, and if we are lucky, we see them.

As a woman, she writes about love, death and as the title says, the c This is a book of Love Poetry, written by Marilyn Hacker, an already famous poet. As a woman, she writes about love, death and as the title says, the changing of the seasons, in voices most men will never hear, not with the words in front of them on the page. I love her work, both here and in the twenty or so volumes she has been writing since This book was a gift to me on my 50th birthday, by one of the truly human beings I have met, who happens to be an ordained Catholic Priest.

I received no finer gift.

Dec 31, Nina rated it really liked it Shelves: I was having a late-night conversation with my pal Ryan Kalas about the solstice, and somehow he said something about how he enjoyed talking to me about life and death. And then I remembered this book! I'd read it in college when Marilyn Hacker came to visit our intro to feminist studies class, but it resonated more now. I love the sonnets and other forms she uses here.

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I love how this is a novel, a story, in which every word counts and can be counted, syllabically. I also like how the rhythm I was having a late-night conversation with my pal Ryan Kalas about the solstice, and somehow he said something about how he enjoyed talking to me about life and death. I also like how the rhythm of the poems got a few sexy sentences stuck in my head. And yet, perhaps what I like most is the sense of place and the fleetingness of time. These poems are bound in Paris and New York, and we know that love can move before it begins.

Oct 07, P rated it it was amazing. My God, this book is absolutely stunning. Hacker's poetry is truly inspirational, beautiful and poignant. Her sonnets about this past love affair, in particular are composed so articulately with great honesty. I was captivated from the very first page and left completely speechless when I turned the last. Her ability to capture the intensity of longing, lust and love in such sensuality is amazing. Also, her masterful artistic abilities as a poet further deepens my admiration for her as one of my My God, this book is absolutely stunning.

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Also, her masterful artistic abilities as a poet further deepens my admiration for her as one of my favourite poets of all-time. Feb 09, Mandy rated it it was amazing. The narrative really resonated with me - it was honest and poignant and emotionally powerful. Hacker's language is nuanced, erotic, and just beautiful. I dog-eared over half of the poems in order to return to and savor them again.

Nov 22, Jennifer rated it it was amazing Shelves: I had known about this since reading Pages for You , and always wondered a little about it and looked for it in used bookstores; it wasn't until I needed it, until I found myself crying at three a. Jun 23, Vicki rated it it was amazing.

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This was the first "lesbian" book I read when I finally got free and moved to LA in the late 's. This poetry about Hacker's relationship with a younger woman who finally leaves her is sexy, troubling Sep 29, Danielle rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jul 04, Mat rated it really liked it.

Jun 23, Aimee rated it it was amazing. My favorite poetry book of all time. Dec 09, Nancy rated it it was amazing Shelves:

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