{"product_id":"love-speaks-its-name-isbn-9780375411700","title":"Love Speaks Its Name","description":"From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo’s “Love Misinterpreted” to Noël Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” from May Swenson’s “Symmetrical Companion” to Muriel Rukeyser’s “Looking at Each Other,” these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety.J. D. McClatchy is the author of four books of poetry, two books of literary essays, and four opera libretti. He is editor of The Yale Review and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.\u003cb\u003e\"I Have Had Not One Word From Her \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Sappho\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(trans. by Mary Barnard) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have not had one word from her\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrankly I wish I were dead.\u003cbr\u003eWhen she left, she wept\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea great deal; she said to\u003cbr\u003eme, \"This parting must be\u003cbr\u003eendured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI said, \"Go, and be happy \u003cbr\u003ebut remember (you know\u003cbr\u003ewell) whom you leave shackled by love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you forget me, think \u003cbr\u003eof our gifts to Aphrodite \u003cbr\u003eand all the loveliness that we shared \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"all the violet tiaras, \u003cbr\u003ebraided rosebuds, dill and \u003cbr\u003ecrocus twined around your young neck \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"myrrh poured on your head \u003cbr\u003eand on soft mats girls with\u003cbr\u003eall that they most wished for beside them \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"while no voices chanted\u003cbr\u003echoruses without ours, \u003cbr\u003eno woodlot bloomed in spring without song . . .\"","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300155740389,"sku":"NP9780375411700","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375411700.jpg?v=1767731904","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-speaks-its-name-isbn-9780375411700","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}