Kiss Off
Poems to Set You Free
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The editors of "The Hell with Love" are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart. For anyone who's been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person one can fall in love with is oneself.
The editors of The Hell With Love are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart of all—your own. For anyone who’s been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person you can fall in love with is yourself. The collection travels through various stages of selfdiscovery, self-doubt, and, ultimately, self-realization and acceptance—from first kiss to kiss off. Renowned poets, including John Keats, Margaret Atwood, James Wright, Lucille Clifton, and Marie Ponsot explore the universal issues of trust and betrayal, awakening and curiosity, freedom, and self-confidence. This collection will show anyone looking for love how to find it within.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
And when you've had enough and need to say goodbye to all that, there's Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free, edited by Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash V lez, who brought you The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart, and whom the press chat calls "Georgetown University literature instructors, best friends, and proponents of `literary therapy.' " They break the book into categories like "Hurting: When Things Fall Apart," "Reeling: When You Go Wild" and "Dealing: When You Face Facts," and include canonical and contemporary poems from everyone from Wang Wei to Claude McKay and Kim Konopka. By the time readers reach the "Believing: When You Stay Strong" section, they'll have absorbed a lot of poetry in the process of clearing the psychic decks.
