Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man
La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1995; Second edition 1997
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This book is of eternal pertinent interest—tenacity in the days of tenuous lovelife. Long term relationship is a subject we don’t hear much of anymore. Who has even made it thus far to be able to write about it realistically and eloquently? The fifty poems in the collection move from the earliest “Taking Vows” through the challenges of “The Middles” into a section about not committing adultery and into the powerfully affirming “Reaching Across”. Finally there shines the sense of a voluptuous bond. These are not domestic elegies, but fierce and tender documents about what it truly takes to go the long haul. They possess a spiritual electricity gained from seeing clearly into the depths of love, something akin to the wild-eyed, erotic songs of India’s rebel saint Mirabai.