There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy. David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy. In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing. This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.

Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.

Get lost in the most erotic collection of poetry that will leave you breathless and your senses intoxicated. Each word is rich and heavy with sensual desire and wanting. The author deliciously entices you to play uninhibited in the sexy art of erotica, opening your mind as each poem permeates your carnal hungers. Here you will find 25 poems that will tease, taunt, and satisfy your every need.

Lyrical Afrodisiac is an intimate collection of poems and vignettes that will awaken the passion in any reader. Each piece takes the reader on an erotic journey through the uninhibited sexual expression of Amerikah The Beautiful. Her liberating lines arouse the senses with vivid imagery. Lyrical Afrodisiac ranges from playful poems like Thank You which expresses the humor in sexual satisfaction to poems like Assibey delving into love at first sight. Haikus will never be looked at the same, Lyrical Afrodisiac reunites nature and nudity with clever comparisons in each short poem. Amerikah The Beautiful captures the essence of love, lust, passion and playfulness in her lines as she removes the literary chastity belt from the minds of her readers.

A collection of all 3 volumes of Clarissa O. Clemens' erotic poetry book series, The Poetic Art of Seduction, under 1 cover! An erotic gift of lyrical rhyme to keep on every bedroom nightstand for play. Kinky yet classy erotic poetry painting sexy pictures and scenes with seductive words to read to each other and get the mood soaked in seduction.What critics have said about Clarissa's poetry:"...A delicious dance with words...""Impossible not to be aroused...""...mouth-watering feast of erotic rhyme...""...her words ebb and flow with a superb sensuousness.""5 Stars is just not enough for this exquisite work of erotic art"78 Passionate poems of seduction are waiting for you to be devoured with lust and desire. 41Beautifully sensuous photographs have been included to heighten your visual experience with Ms. Clemens poetry.A must-have for every couple looking for new ways to add the spark back into their flame.

This is the authors account of a nostalgic journey to post war Italy for further operatic study. On the ship she met the man of her dreams whom she later married. She also met another singer, Lucilla Udovick with whom she shared an apartment in Milano and who became a life long friend. Lucilla introduced her to the anthologies of Louis Untermeyer. This in turn inspired the author to begin writing poetry. On her return to America, while living in New York she met Louis Untermeyer who became her mentor. After studying with him for almost two years she returned to Los Angeles, California. Her literary and friendly relationship with her mentor continued through their correspondence for twenty-four years until his death. She has been so preoccupied with her writing and family activities, she has neglected until now getting her work into publication. To date her only previously published work is a book of poetry, "A Tale of Leaves." She has written over 100 yet to be published books of poetry and prose.