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The Best American Erotic Poems

From 1800 to the Present

by David Lehman

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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