Bookshelf 2023: "erotic love poems"

Written by Richard Price and Sally Price for New West Indian Guide on Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
These erotic love poems, sometimes opaque and surrealistic, are also often direct: “Seafaring Date with an Imaginary Woman” ends with “Something like a well-timed shipwreck / shuddered in our veins—and then / closing our eyes tight and being swept away / we’re suddenly conjugating the verb sand.”